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Finally, the last document is a poster encouraging women to work in factories during the WWII. The woman in the poster is really beautiful, feminine and glamorous. She doesn’t really correspond to the image of a factory worker. She has make up on her face, a headscarf to protect her hair and she is got gloves to protect her hands or nails. She looks like a typical pin u girl and yet she is doing a man’s job, using a drill in a steel. The poster shows that she can perfectly do his job just like a man would do it. This idea renforced by the catch phrase that we can see in the top right.

During WWII, women had to work in factories to help the nation. If a woman can work in a factory it means that it is not dangerous as it used to be. The poster attracted woman in factories because it was a question of necessary during WWII. But the situation helped woman to get some power that they didn’t abandon after the war. Power have been modified because of history. WWII was a starting point of a process of independance for woman. For a long time, the work place in general and the factory more especially were a place for men, a place for male domination. When they began to work in factories, women gained a part of men’s power. In the poster, we can see a marge between male and female worlds : the drill represents the male power whereas the woman looks like a pin up. The two seem to be in harmony.

I think this poster can change mentalities and shows to the society that women can do the same things that men. It’s a kind of equality and this is why I think this document can illustrates the notion.

To conclude, we can consider that in politics and social science, power is the ability to influence the behavior of people. The term authority is often used for power perceived as legitimate by the social structure. Power can be seen as evil or unjust, but the exercise of power is accepted as endemic to humans as social beings. The power of the president of United States over nation is not the same power used by a dictator over his country.

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