n children. During this time, she saw many women die of very preventable deaths due to child labor, and horrible methods of self-induced abortion. (About Margaret Sanger, 1) It was during the 20s that the battle between modernization and traditionalism was at its highest. (About Margaret Sanger, 2) The 1920s was a time of great revolution and change for America. During this time, many new ideas and leads in arts and entertainment, sports, politics, public and social affairs, and crime and punishment skyrocketed like never before. While artists, inventors, and thinkers were changing the world in their own way, brazen free-thinking social reformers were causing status-quo old timers bewilderment. (Rayburn, 5) The loosening of restrictions on women was one of the most significant legacies of the 1920s. In both America and certain countries in Europe, women were voting for the first time. The Gibson Girl look was now out, and in her place was a girl known as a flapper who smoke, drank, and had sex as she pleased. Working women were more pervasive, and after work they were smoking, drinking, and speaking freelyshocking their Gibson-girl-era mothers. (Rayburn, 2) Though certainly not unknown before the 1920s, youthful rebellion struck at the very foundations of tradition and morality. Young women were wearing dresses and shockingly tight bathing suits that showed leg skin from the knee on down, an unprecedented flaunting of flesh. From 1920 to 1925, dress hemlines raced upward from the ankles to the kneesheights that only a few years before were seen only in houses of prostitution. (Rayburn, 1) Girls were caking on makeup. Girls and young women caked makeup on themselves in a fashion previously seen only on women of ill repute. (Rayburn, 2) The 1920s was the decade in which dating as we know it today was invented. The unchaperoned date was something new, and the rebellious youth along with the flappers were sure to cause an uproar when put to...
