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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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| + | Interesting that the War Department and women in general made it very clear that they were filling these jobs "for the duration," implying from the beginning that they not only understood that they were to relinquish their jobs upon the return of American GIs but accepted that as a given. Also, I wonder how much of a turning point WW2 was for women in the workplace, especially in light of the popular image of the 1950s household--the stay at home mom who cooks/cleans etc, more or less the picture of domesticity. If WW2 was such a turning point for women in the workplace then why was there such a move for women to remain at home in the 1950s, not only as perpetuated by media but also in the expectations of lower and middle class families? -schang | ||
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 | 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 | ||
