We often think that the role of women in western societies prior to the 1960s was largely unchanging: a matter of doing what women were expected to do. during world war ii, however, the roles of women silently upended conventional ideas about gender roles. women worked as bomb makers and in factories and were later revealed as having been a key part of the code-breaking effort that won the war. these examples lend insight into how we create our identities through interactions and not through fixed definitions. as such, they reflect ideas posited by