A 20. század elején megjelenő új nőtípus

The turn of the century brought some significant, albeit not yet revolutionary changes in the life of women and, as a consequence, their social perception also changed to a certain degree: the New Women of the 1920s appeared. The New Woman, whose existence was both the cause and the effect of the political, social changes after the First World War, dared to contradict the old dogmas of the Victorian Age, had a much more visible presence in the social and public realms, gained the right to vote, had more chances to work, and among whom there emerged a group of young, attractive and provocative females, the flappers. But notwithstanding the changes that affected women’s lives in the 1920s, the absence of a long lasting achievement and a revolutionary mark on the history of women and the history of the American society questions the success of this new phenomenon. In this paper the focus is on the progress in women’s history in the early 20th century, and, as part of it, the following important questions will be addressed firstly: how politics and political factors influenced women’s perceptions, what were the political reasons behind the lack of change in the situation of women, which forces perpetuated women’s traditional role as the caretakers of the family, and how and why political interests were biased what lead to changes (or to lack of changes).BSc/BAAnglisztik