This ‘new women’ may have looked something like what Elizabeth Hurley describes as “the cigarette out on the streets, motorbike riding, silk stockinged or tennis skirted young woman out on the streets, in the bars or on the sports field” (Stibbe, 10). Matthew Stibbe also expounds on this further, pointing to the conflict that arose from this phenomenon. While the New Woman might be accepted and celebrated in the major cities and urbanized areas, for many Germans fresh out of a World War that decimated their economy and population, it was perhaps a step too far into the
This ‘new women’ may have looked something like what Elizabeth Hurley describes as “the cigarette out on the streets, motorbike riding, silk stockinged or tennis skirted young woman out on the streets, in the bars or on the sports field” (Stibbe, 10). Matthew Stibbe also expounds on this further, pointing to the conflict that arose from this phenomenon. While the New Woman might be accepted and celebrated in the major cities and urbanized areas, for many Germans fresh out of a World War that decimated their economy and population, it was perhaps a step too far into the