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Gibson Girls and Suffragists - Perceptions of Women from 1900 to 1918Images and Issues of Women in the Twentieth Century
Author: Catherine Gourley
ISBN-13: 9780822571506
ISBN-10: 0822571501
Publication Date: 8/15/2007
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books (CT)
Hardcover
8.4 x 10.25 inches, 144 pages
From the turn of the twentieth century through the end of World War I, the Gibson Girl and the suffragist were icons of American womanhood. Gibson Girls were flirtatious and feisty. They drove motor cars and donned bloomers to play a new game called basketball. Some were ladies of polite society, while others were immigrants who did their best to be fashionable on their paltry earnings. The Suffragists, on the other hand, were more concerned with social justice than fashion. They fought for the right to vote for all American women, demanded safer work conditions and better wages for working women, and called for better living conditions for impoverished families. Magazines, sheet music, and celebrities… Read More
