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I enjoyed looking at these photographs, Esther Bubley truly captured “average Americans” just as she intended to. The image that struck me the most was the Instructor of the Capital Transit Company. The title from the website describes exactly what I was thinking: “Bending gender roles for ‘the duration’”. This is the image that was painted in class on Tuesday when we were talking about women working outside the home in “men’s” positions. I wonder how the men behind the instructor felt when they were being taught by a woman. They look about 40 in the photo so it must have been quite a transition for them. I wonder how the men who stayed behind during the war felt in general, I know that this is a Women’s History course but WWII was a turning point for women in the work place, and I wonder how much, if any, resistance they were met with from the men who had stayed behind. Just a thought. – Caryn Levine | I enjoyed looking at these photographs, Esther Bubley truly captured “average Americans” just as she intended to. The image that struck me the most was the Instructor of the Capital Transit Company. The title from the website describes exactly what I was thinking: “Bending gender roles for ‘the duration’”. This is the image that was painted in class on Tuesday when we were talking about women working outside the home in “men’s” positions. I wonder how the men behind the instructor felt when they were being taught by a woman. They look about 40 in the photo so it must have been quite a transition for them. I wonder how the men who stayed behind during the war felt in general, I know that this is a Women’s History course but WWII was a turning point for women in the work place, and I wonder how much, if any, resistance they were met with from the men who had stayed behind. Just a thought. – Caryn Levine | ||
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| + | So neat! Sometimes it's hard to imagine how things were in just general situations back then, but these photographs give us great, real pictures! My favorites were the one with the soldiers waiting for the service bus, and there's a woman standing there in uniform among the. She just looked like she belonged, and it was really cool to see that. I also like the one with the men and women laughing on the bus together... it's a photo of great emotion, and I think the women's joy is telling. I do wish that we had more complete captions, or even little essays that explained what exactly was going on and how Esther Bubley was seeing it, or what she wanted us to notice in the photo. --Sarah Smethurst | ||
==Mary McLeod Bethune Urges President Roosevelt to Turn to Qualified Negro Women for Help, 1940== | ==Mary McLeod Bethune Urges President Roosevelt to Turn to Qualified Negro Women for Help, 1940== | ||
