Summary Of Flappers Here To Stay Says Colleen Moore

Hall, Gladys. "Flappers Here To Stay, Says Colleen Moore." The Flapper, November 1922. http://www.oldmagazinearticles.com/Silent_Movie_Actress_Colleen_Moore_Interview_Colleen_Moore_Hollywood_Flapper-pdf.

This article was written by Gladys Hall, she interviewed the famous Flapper Girl Colleen Moore. As the interview begins, Gladys mentions how she doesn’t see Colleen as a Flapper. However, in contrast with Bliven’s interview, Colleen mentions how Flappers essentially are the same as older generations. “She likes her freedom, and she likes to be a bit daring, and snap her cunning, manicured little fingers in the face of the world; but fundamentally, she is the same sort of girl as my grand-mamma was when she was young!” In this quote, we can

It also goes further to explain how Flappers were in a way feminist. The author has a positive outlook to what Flappers were. He explains in the beginning how the flappers redefined the idea of womanhood. We can see it in this quote “It is always that one image of the woman of the 1920s, being more self-confident, more independent and more emancipated, that is transported from then until today.” This shows that what flapper stand for was what we use today as words to empower women independent and self-confident, thus also showing the importance of their lifestyle, even today. However, the author also emphasizes that Flappers, even though women just gained the right to vote, were apolitical and there was little political participation from women in the 1920s. The author then draws a comparison between the image of the Gibson girl and The Flapper. In the following quote “Indeed, Gibson as well as Flapper Girls were the embodiment of the self-confident 'modern' woman. Yet, the Gibson Girl represented this with her elegance in the upper class, whereas the Flapper Girl's image was white and middle class.” With this quote we can see that the Flappers were the embodiment of Middle Class Women in the Northeast during the 1920s. The author also explains that the reason why it was the Middle Class instead of the elite was because of the appearance of mass production. “The

In her thesis, she explains how the Flappers reflected the changes in women’s role in the 1920s, and how it was a different from the conservative women of the Victorian Era. She emphasizes how important the Flappers were, and how sometimes they are overlooked. “The role of the flappers in the 1920s was to introduce a new way of life to women, and the flappers provided a model through which women may be able to make a small change in their marriage and life.” As we see here, Flappers were of great importance to the advancement of women roles in society. Even though, Flapper helped change the role of women, which would be considered a feminist issue, they criticized them. “Notable here is that the Flappers were even criticized by feminists as well despite the fact that they were liberated from the femininity of the paternalistic Victorian era and its resulting restrictions in behavior.” As Park describes here, not all feminist were onboard with the Flappers; because as described in other sources and mentioned in Parks thesis, Flappers didn’t care about politics. Furthermore, she goes into describing how the idea of womanhood and femininity changed, as discussed in other sources from The Gibson girl to the Flapper. The image of a mature Victorian-era woman who was shy and oppressed was replaced by the image of a young and lively flapper with open minds the