Kathleen Ernst's 'Breaking Tradition'

The two passages, Breaking Tradition by Kathleen Ernest and A Family Affair by Gina DeAngelis and Lisa Ballinger, portray the changing role of women during the Civil War and World War II. Each passage shows how war transformed women’s roles in society in the 1800’s. In the 1800’s, women’s opinions and decisions were restricted during the Civil War and World War II, due to laws and traditions.

Women had a huge role in the World War II that so many do not recognize. Women were involved in many different jobs that allowed them to step out of the ordinary norm as the “typical housewife”, and dive into fierce hardworking jobs that until then only a man could do. Women jumped into the factories and many different roles that contributed to World War II, because the need for more American workers was crucial.

The changing roles of women throughout history has been drastic, and none more so than the period during and after World War II. The irrevocable changes that occurred once the war started and women went to work were unprecedented.

World War II gave women the chance to take part in and prove what they where cable of handling men’s work. However there were limitations that women had to overcome during the war such as sexism and sexualized violence.

2. According to Clara Barton’s poem, how were women treated for stepping out of their traditional roles during the war? Why did they they push to break out of these roles?

Women’s roles change during World War II because men were gone and their responsibilities weren’t being taken care of. The women began working and doing the men’s house chores for them along with their own responsibilities has women(Graves 1-2). The women were the only people who could take the mens places and money was tight. Women were needed to get work done because it

The war marked a watershed in the history of women at work, and temporarily at least, caused a greater change in women's economic status than half a century of feminist rhetoric and agitation had been able to achieve. (125)

Due to the problems and struggles woman had, women begin to break apart from the standards that they were designated to have and started taking control of the situations “As the war began, women transformed peacetime domestic chores and skills into wartime activities, becoming the unofficial quartermaster corps of the Continental Army and of their state regiments” (Berkin XV). During the war Carol shows the battle that women went through “Eliza Wilkinson captures the feelings of many women, left alone to face the brutality and violence of the war” (Pg.36). The roles women played during the war changed remarkably. After the war Carol clarifies how the lives of women alternated. The book covers an extensive period of time and this becomes important because it starts by setting the movement for women in the war, it explains how the war was for women, and then the aftermath for women after winning the war.

In the years after the Second World War, people created uncountable numbers of historiographical research on various topics related to the war, such as military tactics in battles, individual groups of men during their time in service, and other such subjects. Not much surprise exists then, that women’s actions in World War II eventually would also gain interest and publication for the public, though it did not gain an undivided focus until the advent of women’s and social history grew momentum. Women, despite being half of the world’s population, doubtlessly had acted during the war years, although limited by social gender expectations of the period. As time passes from 1945, more interest in the lives of women and their effect on the war

When the war started, women had to take over the jobs of men and they learned to be independent. These women exemplified the beginning of change. Coupled with enfranchisement and the increased popularity of birth control, women experienced a new

In the American history, Civil War takes one of the prominent places due to the significance of it role in formation of American consciousness. The Civil Was of 1861-1865 identified the directions that the nation would take in the future development. Still, despite the importance of this event in the history of the United States, its impact on different spheres of human lives is commonly given less attention than necessary for understanding of the future changes in the American mentality. Specific interest is presented with the question of roles of women during wartime, and especially Confederate women. Given the simple fact that men were all gone to war, women were presented with the pressing need to deal with the things they have never took part in, pushing them into public life and making them the central cell of the society instead of their fathers, brothers and husbands. With this, the ideology of domesticity that was present before the Civil War in Confederate women had to change under the pressure of new circumstances. This has put the beginning for the future equalization of rights of men and women and the fight for it that women gradually came to understand the need for.

Ever since then women proved that they can work in a man’s workplace and do just as well. Any job that was a man’s, was a women’s as well. Women were soon “the most needed workers of all” according to Brenda Ralf Lewis. Factory workers became known as “the soldiers without guns”. If women hadn’t stepped up to the line, winning the war wouldn’t have been as easy as it was for us. Not only did the women in factories and shipyards have a big part in doing their part in the war contributions, but so did the women who were out on the field fighting alongside with their men risking their very life.

The government had different perceptions of women during World War II. Many women worked in homes or had modest jobs like teaching or office work. The different perceptions came about when women were obligated to take the place of men workers in factories; the men were sent to fight in the World War II. The greatest increase of women workers, was during the WWII and post WWII. In Slacks and Calluses, Reid and Bowman were employed at a San Diego bomber plant. They wanted to do their part during the war by working the swing shift. This book gives details of the work experience of women in 1943. In this essay the following questions are answered: What does Slacks and Calluses reveal about social class in lives of women? Does

It was uncertain to what extent did women’s participation in WWI changed the attitude and position of women in post-war Europe. One thing assured is that women’s wartime efforts were recognized in the years after WWI. In recognition of women’s support during the war, Canada, the United States, Britain, and a number of European countries extended suffrage to women. It seems that the turbulence and the despair of World War I had caused a re-examination of many of the treasured values in many western societies, including gender expectations.

The article The Coming War on Women written by Willard Waller, argues that the coming men from the war will encounter yet another war with their women on the grounds for supremacy. According to the document, there will be “three phases” in this “war”: the