<P> Most British historians depict the 1920s as an era of domesticity for women with little feminist progress, apart from full suffrage which came in 1928 . On the contrary, argues Alison Light, literary sources reveal that many British women enjoyed: </P> <Dl> <Dd> the buoyant sense of excitement and release which animates so many of the more broadly cultural activities which different groups of women enjoyed in this period . What new kinds of social and personal opportunity, for example, were offered by the changing cultures of sport and entertainment...by new patterns of domestic life...new forms of a household appliance, new attitudes to housework? </Dd> </Dl> <Dd> the buoyant sense of excitement and release which animates so many of the more broadly cultural activities which different groups of women enjoyed in this period . What new kinds of social and personal opportunity, for example, were offered by the changing cultures of sport and entertainment...by new patterns of domestic life...new forms of a household appliance, new attitudes to housework? </Dd> <P> With the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920, that gave women the right to vote, American feminists attained the political equality they had been waiting for . A generational gap began to form between the "new" women of the 1920s and the previous generation . Prior to the 19th Amendment, feminists commonly thought women could not pursue both a career and a family successfully, believing one would inherently inhibit the development of the other . This mentality began to change in the 1920s, as more women began to desire not only successful careers of their own, but also families . The "new" woman was less invested in social service than the Progressive generations, and in tune with the consumerist spirit of the era, she was eager to compete and to find personal fulfillment . Higher education was rapidly expanding for women . Linda Eisenmann claims, "New collegiate opportunities for women profoundly redefined womanhood by challenging the Victorian belief that men's and women's social roles were rooted in biology ." </P>

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