The Positive Role Of American Women Military Force In Promoting Women's Liberation During WW?

World War ? is the largest and most violent armed conflict in the history of mankind. The United States shot up to become the strongest world power after going through it, with a number of earthshaking chances on the its politics, economy, and social culture. The WW?, is rightly between two high tide periods which is from the first American feminist movement to the second, and we prefer to regard the WW? as the transition stage for two waves of feminist movements, because a large number of women got out of the house and involved themselves into the labor market with fully government's support and obviously servicewoman was one of the indispensable groups among working women. With the entrance of the US into the war, women were conscripted by the army and even fought in the front-lines. Female corps were created and even survived in the postwar period. Definitively, the original goal of recruiting women was to support the war itself, but by serving in the military, women's social role changed, ability improved and they achieved the awakening of their self-awareness. Through analyzing women's positive transitions, this dissertation argues that American women military force played a positive role in promoting women's liberation during World War ?.This dissertation is composed of four parts.The introduction includes the literature review, the significance of this essay and the background information about American women's military force during WW?. In this part, the author also defines two important items “ women' s military force ” and “women' s liberation” in the beginning.Chapter One analyzes the changing role of American women during WW?. This chapter begins with a specific comparison by detailing the great changes in women's life from American social, economic, and political reasons throughout the 1940 s. When women were forced to put themselves into public realms, and set foot into the military, a realm filled with masculinity, their social roles were meant to be reorganized, especially the concept changes on women's nature and on the social place where they should belong to.Chapter Two focuses on exploring women's ability improvements in both working and political fields by joining the army. As women serving in the military, many new jobs were opened to them, and they were recruited in the fields of science and technology, and were called upon for lots of front operations. Women gained the opportunities for perfecting their own vocational abilities and also for making their own career planning. Oddly, women not only made great efforts for the development of female corps, but also kept seeking for their own rights in various military aspects, such as equal rank, pay and their revolution against racial discrimination and so on. Although their successes did not achieve so much as women did in two American feminist movements, it was helpful to gestate more and more independent women with cheerful and optimistic personality.Chapter Three explores the army experience, as a positive factor, awakened women's self-awareness. In the late wartime, American social attitudes toward the female military did an about-turn, the government finally started to give affirmations to women's contribution, but the dispute on enlisted women had always existed since the wartime. However, women got the unprecedented success in WW?, which let women know that husband was not their only anchor and kitchen was not the only place to show their life ability. It is true that some female military forces were disbanded, and many women were forced to lose jobs after the war, but women's internal cause of self-awareness had formed and their glory military experience had laid the precondition for an awakened womanhood in the 1960 s.