Women in World War Two

1. Source A tries to put the message across to, ‘all women’, that they are needed in the war effort, no matter how big or little their exertion is. It encourages women not to be afraid and promotes feelings of patriotism by talking to the female population as a collective by using words such as, ‘all’, ‘every’, and, ‘we’. Ideas of patriotism encouraging women to get involved also occur when the speaker makes it clear that they fighting for their lives, freedom and future. The member of the Women’s Institute, who presented the speech on BBC Home Service, urges women to make sacrifices at home such as allowing children to be evacuated, dealing with husbands being away at war and live with rationing. It was presented on BBC Home Service as the government wanted to tell all women to feel that all, ‘all the little things that are so important’, in their lives have to be fought for.

2. Source B, written by a female member of the local council in West Ham...