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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 | 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 | ||
| + | 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 | ||
==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== | ||
