Section A - Identification and Evaluation of Sources This investigation will explore the question: To what extent did prohibition positively impact women in the 1920’s? This time period will be focused on to exhibit how the 19th amendment affected women, as the amendment was passed August 18, 1920. The first source that will be evaluated in depth is a book by Frederick Lewis Allen, “Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920's”, written in 1931. Allen has been Nominated for the “National Book Award for Nonfiction” and studied at Harvard University. His book, “Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920's”, provides ample description of the way women were seen in the 1920s. This reference is useful and credible due to the fact…show more content… Once women were legally equal as men, they indulged in going out to bars and participating in things and socializing with men. Girls began driving automobiles, which was unheard of, and cutting their long locks to shorter dos, mimicking men's’ hairstyles. According to men during this era, “supposedly ‘nice’ girls were smoking cigarettes… they were drinking” (Allen 68). Most men were no longer interested in covered women whom stayed at home with the children all day, but those who partied and danced in bars with the men. Prohibition inspired new forms of sociability between men and women and allowed men and women to have relationships other than just romantic and male dominating. Furthermore, females altered their attire and participated in the used of cosmetic products, “which had not been previously accepted in American society for their connection with prostitution” (Conesa and Rubio 157). These actions and fads that women engaged in allowed them to make their own decisions and become who they wanted to be rather than staying at home all…show more content… The women whom were not Flapper girls that partied and drank were, for the most part, a part of the Women’s Crusade. The Women’s Crusade was a society of women against both men and women participating in the drinking of alcohol, these women participated in what was also called the Temperance movement. In an anonymous letter, signed “A Friend”, titled “Advice to females: on the subject of temperance”, a list of dos and don'ts in the use of alcohol is presented. It was a common thing for women to share these kinds of information and to spread these ideas that alcohol may, for example, be mixed in tea or drunk raw after the birth of a child, but may never be used as a remedy for pain in bowels or be used as a sleep aid (A Friend 1-2). These women came together and “disrupted the liquor trade and forced out of business manufacturers and wholesalers as well as retailers” (Dannenbaum 235), proving that they had a major impact on society, something women did not have
