When defining Feminine beauty one must decide in which time At certain times women have felt repressed by the term, usually due to the beauty business'influence; while at other times Women have found itliberatory: finding it their bonus as females but not theironly power. One will also find that a correlation existsbetween the women's movement, or lack there of, and society's feelings about woman and their aestheticappearance.A woman's beauty during the 1910s and early 1920's was not anaspect of one's life to be contemplated heavily. Woman pre 19th amendment weremore concerned with gaining recognition of their equality then how theylooked. Woman felt beauty came from with in and was not a product one couldbuy. Attractiveness was being strong and powerful: " In the late 1910's andearly 1920's female athletes began to ellipse movie starts as the nationsbeauty archetypes" (Faludi 204)This seems due to the Women's movement's influence at the time. Yet whenthe late 1920s are analyzed one sees a different occurrence. After womenachieved the vote in 1920 women, it seems, felt they were equal and were ableto be what ever they chose. If they wanted to make them selves up they could.if they wanted to work, or stay home, or anything else they could. "Flapper Jane", the ideal figure of the 1920s, is the object ofconstant analysis. "She is, for one thing a very pretty girl. Beauty is thefashion in 1925" (Flapper Jane, 65). When Reading Flapper Jane one gets asense that "Jane" felt that she was equal and her beauty was just somethingthat she did and not something that did her:" Women still want to be loved,...But they want it to be on a 50 / 50 basis which includes being admired for thequalities they possess" (Flapper Jane, 67). In the case of the Flapper and the1920s beauty was not oppressive: "In fact Jane says, " That women today are shaking of their oldservitude"..." If they want to wear their heads shaven, as a symbol ofdefiance against the ...
