Transcript File - Peg Lamphier

Rosie: History, Iconography
and Contemporary Issues
Rosie as Propaganda:
 Realities of a TWO FRONT WAR
 Soldiers for both European and Pacific Theaters
 12 Million American Men in the Military by 1944
 Plus, Stuff for a 2 Front War—Different stuff.
Waged Work Not Just for Poor Women
Anymore.
Waged Work as PATRIOTIC.
Whole Lotta Rosies
I. Women’s Waged War Work:
Let’s Do the Numbers
 1930: 22% Working Age Female Employment
 1940: 25% “
 1945: 37%
 6.5 Million Women added to workforce
 Or 1 in 4 of Married Women at WAGED work
(cause they’re all doing unwaged work– right?)
 350,000 Women joined the Armed Services
 310,000 women worked in aircraft industries, or 65%
of total work force
II. Women’s Military Service
A. WAC: Women’s Army Aux. Corp
B. WAVES: Navy Women’s
Auxiliary
 C. Marine Corp Women’s
 Reserve
D. SPARS:
Women’s
Coast Guard Aux.
 E. WASP:
WOMEN’S AIRFORCE
SERVICE PILOTS
 F. Army Nurse Corp
 *54,000 Active Duty
 *217 Black Nurses
 *66 POWs
 E. Navy Nurse Corp:

*11,000 Active Duty
 *11 POWs
 * 24 Flight Nurses
III. Women’s Non-Military and
Volunteer Work
A.
OSS: Office of Strategic Services: Sisterhood of Spies
--Julia Child and Marlene Dietrich
B. American Red Cross:
Nursing, Relief Supplies,
Entertainment
 C. United Service Organization: Programs,
Services and Entertainment to Military personnel.
IV. Women’s Domestic Work
Victory Gardens:
Conservation as Patriotism
Wonder Woman: A Rosie!
 Introduced by DC
Comics, Jan., 1942,
to Suggest Female Power,
Sexual Equality
and Women’s Role
in Fighting “Evil.”
SO What?
 Yea Women!
 Yea Women?
 (Note, we still need conferences like these)
Norman Rockwell’s Rosie
The Bechdel Test
 1. The Movie has more than ONE
Woman.
 2. The Two women Talk to Each Other.
 3. They Talk About Something Other
Than Men.
Examples of Films Girls Watch
that Fail the Test
 1. Harry Potter– Deathly Hallows
 2. Avatar
 3. Star Wars
 4. Lord Of the Rings Films
 5. The Twilight Films
 6. 10 of 14 Pixar Films (Bug Life, Toy Story 3, Incredibles and
Brave Pass)
 7. And, sadly, so many more.
Anita Sarkeesian and Sexism in
Video Games
 Studies Gender Tropes in Video Games and
misogyny in Gaming Culture.
 1. Women are objectified and sexualized.
 2. Women exist to be rescued—Damsel in
Distress Trope.
 3. Women are rarely Protaganists.
 4. Violence, both sexual and not, against
women is ubiquitous.
Susan Douglas on TV
 1. Women should be judged FIRST by their appearance.
 2. Women need to compete over men.
 3. Women can’t get along with each other.
 4. Women are overly emotional and obsessed with
relationships.
 5. Women should be sexy, but not sexual.
 6. Strong women are bitches.
 7. Women are materialistic and shallow.
 8. Housework and Childrearing are Women’s Work.
The Othello Effect
or
Internalized Oppression
Can Rosie and Wonder Woman
HELP US Save OURSELVES?
Amy Cuddy: Your Body Language Not
Only Shapes How People See You,
it Shapes
WHO YOU ARE
Our Bodies Chang Our Minds
 Cortisone is the Stress Hormone.
 Testosterone is the Dominance/Confidence
Hormone
 2 Minutes of “Power Posing” Raises Testosterone
and lowers Cortisol.
 TWO MINUTES!!!! Get Your Testosterone Up and
your Cortisol Down.
What’s a High Power Pose?
 1. Rosie!
 2. WONDER WOMAN!
Go Forth and Be, NOT a Powerful
Person, but a Powerful Woman.
Redefine Power.
NOW.
For the GIRLS.