“You will be mobilized!”: Gender and work in World War II - United States and Brazil.
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https://doi.org/10.5433/1984-3356.2019v12n24p517Keywords:
Mobilization, World war II, Gender, Work, Reader’s Digest.Abstract
In the United States, the variety magazine Reader's Digest was one of those that contributed intensely to the mobilization for the Second World War, calling both American women to work in the industry and defending that men go to the fronts, articulating later also the demobilization of women and their return to homes. In the Brazilian context, the Selections of Reader's Digest magazine - by working with a project to select North American material - also contributed to the different ways in which gender roles during the years of conflict were presented to Brazilian readers along the lines of policies implemented in the United States. The focus of this work's analysis, therefore, will be on how these papers were articulated in both countries, between 1941 and 1945, based on articles published by both magazines. Taking Gender Studies as a theoretical perspective, mainly the biases established by scholars such as Susan Hartmann and Joanne Meyerowitz, and paying attention to the concept of representation, as conceived by Roger Chartier, the work aims to list possible divergences regarding the call for proposals. women, pointing out the different ways in which they participated in the war effort, whether on the homefront or on the battlefield.
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