This essay will analyze whether the iconic representation of the Roaring Twenties with women's new right to sexuality was a liberal step of progress within society or a capitalist enterprise to exploit a new right to sexuality vital market. Comparing Margaret Sanger's work with a survey conducted by New Girls for Old, the former offers a more mature look at sexuality and ownership of a woman's body and the latter a depiction of girls coming of age in the sexually "free" Roaring Twenties ". Margaret Sanger is known as "the mother of planned parenthood" and in the source she brings together a collection of letters to talk about the sexual slavery of motherhood through the fulfillment of her husband's desires. While Blanchard and Manasses of New Girls for Old suggest the historical consensus that the flapper is an invention compared to the reality where promiscuity was widely condemned. Both sources address the issue from a different demographic, the young married housewife and the generation of age in the Roaring Twenties respectively. If we compare the intentions, we see that Sanger's is a politically motivated piece that seeks empathy compared to what appears to be a balanced study of New Girls for Old. Therefore the most representative source is that of the uninfluenced survey, while it cannot be ruled out that they are selectively chosen; compared to Sanger's selected testimonies they are probably the most pressing and emotional letters written to her. This conflicting factor of intent also leads to their varying influence, as Engelman presents, it was Sanger's pivotal activist role which, combined with radicals, socialists and professionals, led to the subsequent advancement of the birth control movement as one of the few women to lead the company. movements i...... middle of paper...... fewer children has been emphasized in patriarchal and consumerist society. The Roaring Twenties were a consumerist and capitalist era for America, and the liberalization of women occurred naturally as the younger generation was born into the new era of Freudian sexuality, however the flapper as a symbol for young women is incorrect. Disproportionate and unfounded, the flapper was a consumerist to exploit a growing cultural market. Women got the right to their own bodies, just as America got the right to their own profit. Works Cited Engelman, P. (2011). A history of the birth control movement in America. Praeger. Fass, P. S. (1977). The Damned and the Beautiful: American Youth in the 1920s. New York: Oxford University Press.Idema, H. (1990). Freud, religion and the roaring twenties: a psychoanalytic theory of secularization in three novelists. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield.