Mata Hari Execution: Feminine Spies Of World War

The Germans were deporting 5 to 10 thousand Jews a day at the Umschlagplatz. Were the Jews would be tightly packed in cattle cars and shipped off to death camps like treblinka were they would be sent to labor or the gas chambers were you executed. Death camps would try to hide what’s really going on. The death camps would say turn in all your valuables so you can be delouced but what they really are doing is sending you to your death.People that are war profiteers would sell some of the valuables that were collected at the death camps. So Irena was terrified when they started deportation she was afraid that all the kids that she put in the orphanage in the ghetto. Several days after wards there was tremence fire fights that broke out all over the ghetto. So Irena sprung into action thinking that the Germans would be distracted from all the fighting so that Irena can smuggle more Jewish kids into the Aryan side. Irena looked at danger straight in the face and smuggled kids through the sewer. Once the Nazi got wind of people smuggling Jews through the sewer they started putting posing the sewers so in anybody went down there they would die. That day Irena smuggled almost 200 kids throughout these

“Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother 40 whacks”, but did she actually do it. On August 4, 1892 Andrew Borden and Abby Borden were brutally murder. Most people think that Lizzie Borden was the murder, but I don’t think she murdered them. There are many clues that prove her innocent. Lizzie Borden was innocent and another person killed her parents. Lizzie Borden deeply cared about her father, there was no physical evidence, and other people didn’t like her father. LIzzie Borden would never kill her parents, but other people would.

As time went on she became a messenger for General P.G.T. Beauregard and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson. When she was working for them she started off by carrying information and transporting medical supplies. By the time her 18th birthday came her ID and activities became well known all over. The press gave her names like “La Belle Rebelle”,” the Siren of the Shenandoah”, and “ Rebel Joan of Arc”. With her ID being well known and her being high profile she was arrested. Her most well known accomplishment was in May of 1862. She was able to get information needed for the Confederates and gave the details to Stonewall Jackson with helped him recapture the town of Fort Royal. Two months after that accomplishment she got arrested for working for the Confederates. She ended up spending a month behind bars at Old Capitol Prison in Washington DC. Later on she was incarcerated for five months.She ended up being banished to the South and never return to the North. Although she was banned she still worked as a spy for the Confederates. In May of 1864 she set sail to transport Confederate papers to England. While sailing the Union Navy stopped her ship and she was then again arrested. She ended up falling in love with one of her captors, Union soldier, Samuel

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.

Another example of a most courageous African American spy during the Civil War was Mary Touvestre, a former slave who worked for one of the Confederate engineers making the USS Merrimack into the CSS Virginia. While at work, Touvestre heard her employer discussing a steam propelled warship, which they referred to it as ironclad, and its importance to the southern war. Realizing the threat that the CSS Virginia posed to the northern blockade, Mary Touvestre daringly stole the ship’s plans and fled to Washington, DC. Walking from Portsmouth, Virginia to the capital, Touvestre risked severe punishment if rebel authorities would have found her with the plans.

Deborah Sampson was shot in the chest, but she dug the bullet out herself to hide her secret. She was a woman disguised as a man to fight in the war. Deborah’s life, roles, and reasons she joined the war had many effects on her, and the war.

She became a well known dancer and a high paid chorus member. In 1925 she got the chance to tour Europe and especially fell in love with France. In France she encountered a much more accepting atmosphere than the racist atmosphere in St. Louis. Her performances became much more exotic and extravagant. She later chose to live in France and leave the racism of the United States behind.

Women were not allowed to join the military, so they disguised themselves as men. These female soldiers would cut their hair, bind their breast with bandages, and adopt masculine names.10 Deborah Sampson was a famous female soldier and she served for a whole year before she was discovered.11 According to the National Women’s History Museum website, most female spies worked as cooks and maids for the British and American military camps where they eavesdropped on conversations about troop movements, military plans, supply shortages and deliveries.12 Lydia Darragh was a Quaker, and her religious beliefs prevented her from getting involved in war.13 For this reason, the British used her house for meetings. At one of these meetings, she overheard the British talking about a surprise attack on George Washington and his men at a nearby camp. She personally delivered the information to Washington's troop, turning a British victory into disappointment.14 Many of these women were compensated for their

One of the most famous female spies of the Union was Sarah Emma Edmonds who got into Confederate camps close to Yorktown, Virginia, dressed as a black slave. Another was the less successful Pauline Cushman, an actress and double agent who undeservedly became known as “Spy of the Cumberland.” (civilwarsignals.org).

One of the world’s most dangerous allied agents in France was “The Limping Lady” Virginia Hall when the Germans invaded France. Virginia Hall was an American Civilian, who was in France when the Germans took control, but due to her hatred of the German policies against the European Jews, she became one of the best spies in American History. Even after Virginia lost her leg in a gun accident, which never stopped her from doing her job, she proved to be a valuable asset in the war against the Germans.

The theme of “voiceless woman” throughout the book “the woman warrior” is of great importance. Maxine Kingston narrates several stories in which gives clear examples on how woman in her family are diminished and silenced by Chinese culture. The author not only provides a voice for herself but also for other women in her family and in her community that did not had the opportunity to speak out and tell their stories.

She upholds a pure facade while indulging in some of the most scandalous and heinous crimes at the same time. She desires to be with a rich kid, while also getting rid of anyone, who dares to stand in her way. My 15th plot idea is where a futa (can be any role) who rose to power by murdering her lover for cheating on her with someone else; she rules over many people with an iron fist. A woman with a taste for bloodshed also has a taste for being very promiscuous.

Also, I am surprised on how can she become a great inventor when she was also a famous movie star in Hollywood, actually I believe she is a kind woman, because she is trying to help the Allied to escape the attack of the German submarines.

Through this written piece of work, I want to examine the ways in which the dominant ideas of gender and war, from a Feminist perspective. I will be contributing an understanding to the role of the Kurdish female fighters in the field of war and politics, that have broken the taboos of gender roles within the community, and the national movement. The concept of gender, war, and conflict has lightened the issue of women in war. The image of war is associated to masculinity, and in many cases women are not welcomes in the field of war, as “she is exposed as a victim of war by drawing the idea of women being helpless (Sjoberg, 2014, p. 10).” Laura Sjoberg; Gender, War, and Conflict, states that “war-making and war-fighting have been traditionally

Femme fatale. Every culture has a mystical femme fatale that is known for being beautiful, enticing and deadly. A female being that has the ability to entice a man with the intent to destroy his very being. The Mermaids, Nymphs, Undines and Sirens, these beautiful and deadly creatures are known all over the world. The alluring charms of these creatures are legendary and have been known globally for centuries. The femme fatale is known for being able to charm and lure wayward men for safety into an out of element location. These men have been away from the company of women or just wanting the female company. The idea of a beautiful and seductive female looking for carnal pleasure is usually desired when a person is in need of physical and