"Você será mobilizada(o)!": gênero e trabalho na Segunda Guerra Mundial - Estados Unidos e Brasil.

In the United States, Reader's Digest was a major contributor to the mobilization of World War II, mobilizing American women to work in the industry and advocating that men should go to the front, articulating later also the demobilization of women and their return to their homes. In the Brazilian context, Seleções do Reader's Digest - working with a US material selection - also contributed to the different ways which gender roles during the conflict years were presented to Brazilian readers along the lines of the policies implemented in the United States. Therefore, the focus of this paper will be on how these roles were articulated in both countries, between 1941 and 1945, based on articles published by both periodicals. Taking as a theoretical perspective the Gender Studies, especially the biases established by scholars such as Susan Hartmann and Joanne Meyerowitz, and focusing on the concept of representation, as conceived by Roger Chartier, the work aims to list possible differences regarding the call for women, pointing out the different ways in which they participated in the war effort, either at homefront or on the battlefield. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]