Emily Yellin’s Our Mother’s War: American Women at the Home and at the Front during World War II (2004): Women’s Contribution and its Impact on their Rights Movement
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2022
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Mouloud Mammeri University
Abstract
The present dissertation had shed light on the issue of women’s status during and after
the Second World War in America through Emily Yellin’s book Our Mothers’ War: American
Women at the Front during World War II,by highlighting the major historical events that
influenced women’s position since the colonial beginnings of America. The Second World
War was the most important event in which women made a major contribution and
experienced great changes in their roles. It cannot be denied that some historians argued that
women’s participation in thewar was just temporary empowerment, while others noted the
great positive impact women got from their contribution in the war. For this reason, our
dissertation focused on the impact of women’s participation in the Second World War on their
position and on women’s rights movement, referring to the theory of new historicism and
feminism.In the opening chapter we have shown that the historical events prior the Second
World War developed women’s status, but not to the same extent as the World War II did.
Inthe second chapter, according to Yellin’s book, we have displayed women's large-scale
workforce participation during the war and its impact on their roles and personalities.In the
final chapter we have discussed the transition and the contraction in the women’s functions in
the post war prior referring to Yellin’s examination of that era, and highlighting the situation
that women unwanted and rejected in their struggles. As a conclusion, we have noted that
women in the World War II experienced the feminist proclamations and paved the way for the
women’s rights movement in the decades following the war
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62p. ; 30cm(+CD-Rom)
Keywords
women’s status, Second World War, historical events, temporary empowerment, new historicism, feminism, transition, feminist proclamation, women’s rights movement
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littérature et civilisation