Compare and Contrast: Women Who Came to the Front Esther Reich Chamberlain College of Nursing Esthereich@aol.com HIST-410N 60452: Contemporary History Fall B‚ 2014 The library of Congress Exhibition on Woman‚ has eight stories of courageous woman “who came to the front” during World War II‚ and shared their experiences. After reading about all eight woman I have chosen to do my compare and contrast case study on three woman who used photography to tell their stories. These three women
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Case Study: Women Who Came to the Front After scanning over the lives of the eight women during WWII the most interesting three I came across are Clare Boothe Luce‚ Dorothea Lange‚ and Toni Frissell. These three women all came to the forefront of presenting different forms of media to the public. All three women were influential in their coverage of the war. WWII opened new opportunities for women in journalistic positions and each of these women utilized their different platforms in a positive
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March 28‚ 2010 Western Civ. 102 World War I and World War II had a profound effect on many people living during those time periods. During World War I and World War II thousands lost their lives fighting for their respective countries. Men played a crucial part in fighting for their countries on the war front‚ but on the home front women played a crucial part also. During both World War I and World War II‚ women were called on to do work and take on major roles that were
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English 9H April 22‚ 2012 WORKING WOMEN Leaving behind the domestic duties of the mid 20th century housewife‚ American women seized the opportunity to expand their worlds and joined the workforce of the nation. Traditionally‚ women were restricted to household obligations and discouraged from working outside the home (Bucher 367). However‚ after the Great Depression‚ the shadow of financial instability hovered over every home in the country. Women became the foundation of the classic American
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Compare contrast women 100 years ago and women today. I. Intro 1. Women’s lives have changed enormously this century and the actions of women themselves have played a vital role in the transformation. Putting women back into history is about giving individual women their history‚ but it should also be about making some collective sense out of women’s divergent experiences. 2. At the beginning of the century most women were invisible in society‚ whatever their class.. II. Clothes a. Clothes
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Research Paper In what specific ways did the Second World War change the lives of women in Canada and/or the United States? Were the changes merely temporary or did they sow the seeds of collapse for traditional gender roles? * * The Second World War dramatically changed the lives of women in both Canada and the United States‚ on every level from political‚ to social‚ to sexual. Further‚ the changes in women’s lives during this time were not merely temporary reactions to a current situation
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"Comfort Women" Historians estimate there were between 80‚000 and 200‚000 comfort women during World War II. Of these many were from the Korean peninsula‚ China‚ Indonesia‚ Malaysia‚ the Netherlands‚ and the Philippines. ("Comfort women protest texts‚" UPI‚ 2 May 1997) More than half of the 169 comfort women survivors in the Philippines were below age 20 when kidnapped by the now-defunct Japanese Imperial Army troops. ("Comfort women protest texts‚" UPI‚ 2 May 1997) Australian
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During World War Two‚ many people in the United States faced different homefront experiences. Some were treated very positively while others were treated very poorly. Some were looked a highly while others were looked at like they were like dirt. Some groups that faced different homefront experiences during World War Two include Jewish Americans‚ Japanese Americans‚ and many other groups. Jewish Americans and Japanese Americans faced two very different U.S. homefront experiences that included the
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common thread with these women on display with the Library of Congress "Women Come to the Front" exhibition‚ is that they all seem to have wanted to convey the social strife felt by foreign and domestic communities. During War time‚ jobs were made more available to females in every facet of industry‚ including photojournalism. The eight women of the exhibit are noted for having both foreign and domestic photographic documentation of the labors of war. Of the eight‚ three women that seemed to have
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practice and theorizing of international relations” –Cynthia Enloe In times of armed conflict‚ women are most susceptible to violence and silencing through the sexualization‚ dehumanization‚ and stigmatization of their identities. Janie Leatherman highlights this point when stating “gender based violence often intensifies and becomes more extreme in a crisis‚ even escalating into a tool of war “ (4). This is inevitable in a patriarchal society where hegemonic masculine values construct gender norms
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