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Becker, Susan D. and William Bruce Wheeler “The ‘New’ Woman of the 1920’s: Image and Reality.” Discovering the American Past, A Look at the Evidence. 4th ed. Vol. II. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998. The first part of the evidence (Sources 1 and 2) consists of excerpts from two best sellers: The Sheik and The Plastic Age. Both of these two sources are fiction but still portray the truth of these times in which they were written. In …

…woman has not changed in least. Women of the twenty-first century are still today merging in motherhood yet succeeding in their own personal professions. There are still men that think that women should stay home, but not to the extreme of the 1920’s. In today’s society, a lot of women are forced to work, because of the cost of living, in that one man cannot always provide for an entire family on his own.