![]() ![]() None of this conduct would have been respectable in their parents’ generation, so its rise seemed to indicate a sudden revolution in gender relations. ![]() They were going out on dates unchaperoned, dancing to jazz music, smoking cigarettes together, forming intimate emotional bonds, and even engaging in the limited form of sexual experimentation known as “petting”. They mixed more easily and unrestrictedly than past generations had. When those emergencies ended, though, it became apparent that young women and men were interacting in new ways. The gulf had been widening since the late 1910s but was still news in 1920 because the crises of war and influenza pandemic had deflected the nation’s attention. Though many were no doubt exaggerated, such sensational pictures of the habits of “jazz-age” youth did register an actual cultural rift between the generations. ![]() Early in the decade, movies, novels, and newspapers showcased young women defying nineteenth-century standards of behavior. The 1920s are famously the era when Victorian sexual attitudes were finally declared moribund. ![]()
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