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I could not be more proud of a woman in the war effort than a woman like Marion Stegeman. As Alice noted I think she was a "new woman" and wore it as a badge on display for everyone to see what she was capable of. I think she strongly differed from typical women of the time and previous wars because she did not romanticize war and when she wrote to her mother she described dangers and death; no she did not see death overseas but could see it on bases and felt the pain of losing a comrade. I found interesting how she compared the death of her classmates and instructor in a plane and to get used to hearing about such incidents to, "fall[ing] down in the bathtubs at home and be killed, or get in a car and meet death." (MAW, 191). Marion's letters home were truly powerful and made me wonder if other WASPS or WAAC's wrote their parents or significant others the same sort of letters, describing the freedoms they felt and also the feeling of loss? -Megan W. | I could not be more proud of a woman in the war effort than a woman like Marion Stegeman. As Alice noted I think she was a "new woman" and wore it as a badge on display for everyone to see what she was capable of. I think she strongly differed from typical women of the time and previous wars because she did not romanticize war and when she wrote to her mother she described dangers and death; no she did not see death overseas but could see it on bases and felt the pain of losing a comrade. I found interesting how she compared the death of her classmates and instructor in a plane and to get used to hearing about such incidents to, "fall[ing] down in the bathtubs at home and be killed, or get in a car and meet death." (MAW, 191). Marion's letters home were truly powerful and made me wonder if other WASPS or WAAC's wrote their parents or significant others the same sort of letters, describing the freedoms they felt and also the feeling of loss? -Megan W. | ||
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| + | ==Photos taken during WWII by Esther Bubley== | ||
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| + | First, I want to say that I found the photos to be really helpful. Not only can I understand the history of women during WWII but I can see them, I think this makes a big difference in fully understanding the time. Next, I want to say that what stood out to me was the different ways that women were dressed. All of these pictures were taken during the war, however, some women were wearing typical woman's clothing of the time, while other women were wearing pants. What is more interesting is that women in the skirts all seemed to sit in a really uncomfortable, uptight looking way with their legs crossed at the bottom or held tightly together with their hands in their laps. The women in pants, on the other hand, are sitting in traditionally male positions as we would see them today, slouched with legs wide open, leaning on the thighs. I'm not sure if that means anything, but it stood out to me. --Erin Sanderson | ||
