Women's Role In French Resistance

Often when we think of women, we think of them as house-wives, stay-at home, and no education. The idea of women in poltics, education, and management was slowly developing with the status quo changing as women saught a need to be equal with men. As the world slowly evolved, women sought the need to have their voices heard of a better life, and the violence layed upon them. During World War II, the French Resistance was a major factor in the liberation of France from the Nazi. Many of whom were women risking their lives on battlefront in hoping for a better life for thie children and their childrens children. This is a mother instinct of doing what ever it takes to have their voices heard and fight back their oppressor. Women in resistance …show more content…
Building a better future through resistance ensured the safer, happy for their children. Because living in a world of cruelity and evil wouldn’t benefit their children in anyway. Women joined the resitance such as Marible sisters in the Dominican Republic. The DR was goverenmted by a oppressive leader named Tranquillo. He caused the death of innocent domicans during his regime. Many opposed his actions to prevent any rebellion, but that was later hatlted his assinnation. However leading up to his death, the Marible Sisters were well known to everyone for their actions of going against such a oppressive regime and as women too. Women often hid from rebelling against anything because they feared the punishments that would haunt them in later years. The three sisters took that risk even though they had a life and children to look after. Its as if it was a calling to them to rebel because of the horrors they had witness such as the loss of husbands, childrens, and disperence of women. Quietly they created a resistance against tranquillo in hopes of removing him from power and ensuring a better life for one another as well as the people of the Domican Republic. Patria, the oldest out of the 3, was the most religious than all the sisters. Her passion for the catholic church shifts through the novel because of the Tranquillo. Slowly she finds her way back to the church because it allowed her to find peace and knowledge that brought her to see everything in a ibgger picture. Joining the resisance with the god on her side allowed her to fulfill her promise that, “we cannot allow our children to grow up in this corrupt and tyrannical regime, “we have to fight against it, and I am willing to give up everything, including my life if necessary”. Patria words “children to grow up in this corrupt and