How have major wars throughout United States history affected women voices in writing?
In Many Sisters To Many Brothers, Mary Macaulay outlines her experience as a woman during WWI. While many incapable men were allowed to fight on the front lines, women were reduced to staying at home and taking care of children. Kind of like how instead of studying something interesting, we’re reduced to writing blog posts about short stories and poems. Mary describes a desire to fight, but isn’t permitted to because of her gender. The following lines illustrate this: “Was there a scrap or ploy in which you, the boy, Could better me? You could not climb higher, Ride straighter, run as quick (and to smoke made you sick) . . . But I sit here, and you're under fire.” It is almost as if she is writing to a young man who she knows well. She knows she is very proficient (in contrast to him), but he is allowed to fight and she is not. This is an injustice that influences her tone, which is almost condescending. She is acknowledging her position in relation to men, and is frustrated by the fact that she isn’t perceived as equal.
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