History & The Arts
Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period
...for women were all blamed for a rise in rates of VD. [Described image] Figure 5 La syphilis maladie héréditaire assassine la race, 1920, France, lithograph on paper, 62 × 81 cm. Photo: U.S. National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division, USA. Notice how syphilis is linked to the New Woman, with her short hair and glamorous appearance. Broadly speaking, there were two possible approaches. The ......