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The Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (Waac)

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Both the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) in Lesia D. Meyer’s piece and Ophelia Paquet in Peggy Pascoe 's piece aimed to defy gender norms; the WAAC during World War II challenged the description of the “military” as a masculine system while Ophelia Paquet disputed miscegenous marriage laws. During World War II, numerous women were recruited to be part of the war effort. Specifically, the WAAC’s efforts persuaded many women to join the military. In addition, the WAAC also argued that a women’s military involvement did not imply that she was purely a camp follower. The WAAC stressed the fact that women had the desire to join the military to simply aide and defend their country just like the multitude of male soldiers. A number of individuals …show more content…

These unfair laws gave that land that rightly belonged to Paquet to her deceased husband 's brother. Most women during this time did not strive to question the laws that limited their standing in society. A majority of women simply accepted the phenomenon that men were simply seen as superior more deserving. In this particular case, men were more worthy of property. This is why Paquet 's brother-in-law received the property Paquet acquired through her marriage. Even though Paquet’s marriage “met the requirements of an Indian custom marriage...should have been...valid out of courtesy,” (277) the court deemed the union and Paquet and her husband, Fred null. This court decision exposed the disquieting reality that white men despite their position in society were invariably deserving of property. In other words, obtaining property meant that these “white” men also held all encompassing power over women particularly non-white women like Paquet. In this specific scenario, power signified a white man’s fight to keep property in the hands of their own. However, a white man’s dominance was also quite apparent across multiple categories in everyday society. One of these other categories was the military. Men assumed supremacy in the military and they criticized women that sabotaged this reality especially with the emergence of the WAAC during World War II. WAAC and Ophelia Paquet disputed the gender norms of the past and strived to dwindle the white man’s sweeping preeminence over

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