Women had many roles during World War II. They helped the military, worked in factories, and became nurses. Before the war, many women were just home makers. During World War II women could do anything. Even famous Rosie the Riveter once said, “We Can Do It!” (Panchyk 57) Women played a huge role in World War II.
Nasca Riverbend’s description of her life in Iraq before and after US’ invasion differs drastically from United States media representations of Arab woman and US government rhetoric regarding war on terror. Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq discusses the war in Iraq and daily life in the perspective from an Arab girl, “Riverbend.” Women throughout history of all races and ethnicities have dealt with hardships or oppressions at large; however, the United States has gained a false pretense as to the “oppressions” Arab women have faced before the war. By grouping all the countries in the Middle East together and thinking the problems and customs were identical, United States has gained false view of what women in Iraq are really going through.
What you may not know about Lange is that she the one that took the most famous photographs about the Great Depression. Lange was hired by the federal government to take pictures of what was going on in farm, families and other places during the Great depression to see how they were and looked. Dorothea may know her by the famous photos that are called “Migrant Mother” and “Migratory Worker” are the best known that she took. She received the Guggenheim Fellowships which is an award that is given to those who have showed outstanding creative ability in the arts. But after Pearl Harbor Dorothea give up the Guggenheim Fellowship award so she
Lange faced the hard choice of either photographing what the government would have had her photograph, or photograph the truth of the horror she saw. Dorothea Lange was one of the most influential women photographers of her time, 1895- 1965. As a child Lange dealt with polio; which gave her a limp for the rest of her life and possibly fed into her desire to photograph some of the darker sides of what was going on in Japanese internment camps. Lange attended Columbia University studying photography. Lange did many collections; her first big one being the Native Americans in the southwest.
This was real life accounts of the women who went through it, which goes a long way with showing what these times were really like during this point in history. If this film was just a narrator telling the audience what occurred during these times, it would be just like many other history documentaries that are made. Showing what these wartime women went through with excitement, humor, and sadness all in one made it that much more great. Seeing these women overcome all that was put against them made you want to rally behind
* Before the war, girls were expected to behave modestly and wear long dresses. When they went out, they had to be accompanied by an older woman or a married woman. * It was totally unacceptable for a woman to smoke in public. Women were employed in jobs that were traditionally associated with women eg servants, seamstresses, secretaries, nursing. * During the war, women started to be employed in different types of jobs eg factory work, replacing the men who had gone to fight in the war in Europe.
Field chose five women to interview and talk about their experiences during the war, stressing the working conditions that the high volume of war production built for black and white women. The five women being interviewed, two white women and three black women, all came from diverse backgrounds, Brooklyn, Illinois, Detroit, and Arkansas farms. While the women are being interviewed, the film goes back and forth with the women’s personal experiences and views and the actual philosophy of the war as seen in propaganda
World War I affected many people during its time of war. WWI was known as the war that ended without any country knowing why it started in the first place. From the mid 1914 to late 1918, the lives of women and men changed for the better. The war impacted the men who had to leave their job to support the battle and the women who kept up with the jobs in order to keep the war running. The women went from running the house to running the factory.
In reviewing the eight women “who came to the front during World War II” in this Library of Congress Exhibition on Women in World War II I have chosen the following three to compare and contrast. Therese Bonney, Toni Frissell, and Esther Bubley were photographers during World War II that captured the moments of war on the home front and the front lines to tell their stories. They touched millions of viewers in the United States and abroad. In contrast most of Therese Bonney’s pictures were images of homeless children and adults on the back roads of Europe. Toni Frissell’s images were mainly about nurses, front-line soldiers, WACs, African-American airmen, and orphaned children.
Denesia Rollins Mr. McKinney History 134-015 12 March 2012 Analysis Paper #3 The Great Depression and World War II have changed the United States by the Changing Roles for Women. With American men enlisting in the war effort, the work force quickly diminished. Who would "man" the assembly lines in the factories to produce the needed items for the current war? The War marked and important watershed in the women status. With most of the men going into military service, the demand for labor struck up old prejudices about sex roles in the workplace, and the military.