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Creating Rosie the Riveter: Class, Gender, and Propaganda during World War II » Read Now
by Maureen Honey. 251 pgs.

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World War II, Film, and History (Chap. 7 "The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter (U.S., 1980): The Experience and Legacy of Wartime Women Wage Earners") » Read Now
by John Whiteclay Chambers, David Culbert. 187 pgs.

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...Ambrose 97 7 The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter U.S., 1980 : The Experience and Legacy of Wartime...Alice Kessler-Harris examines The Life and Times of Rosie the...
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Gender and American History since 1890 (Chap. 8 "Gendered Labor: Norman Rockwell's Rosie the Riveter and the Discourses of Wartime Womanhood") » Read Now
by Barbara Melosh. 308 pgs.

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Mightier Than the Sword: How the News Media Have Shaped American History (Chap. 9 "Creating 'Rosie the Riveter': Propelling the American Women into the Workforce") » Read Now
by Rodger Streitmatter. 294 pgs.

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In this pathbreaking book, Rodger Streitmatter takes the reader on a sightseeing tour of American history as influenced by the public press, visiting fourteen landmark events in U.S. history, from the abolitionist movement & the struggle for women's rights to the civil rights movement & Watergate.
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The Home-Front War: World War II and American Society (Chap. 6 "Remembering Rosie: Advertising Images of Women in World War II") » Read Now
by Kenneth Paul O'Brien, Lynn Hudson Parsons. 214 pgs.

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This book is a collection of nine essays examining the impact of World War II on the American people. The contributions range from "macro" studies (the ways corporations sought to recruit women into the work force) to "micro" studies (the impact of the war on working conditions in Indiana) to...
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This book is a collection of nine essays examining the impact of World War II on the American people. The contributions range from "macro" studies (the ways corporations sought to recruit women into the work force) to "micro" studies (the impact of the war on working conditions in Indiana) to biography (the Congressional career of Margaret Chase Smith). Focusing as it does on the domestic scene, this study offers a comprehensive selection of the impact of the war on Americans, and the way it influenced concepts of gender, race, class, and ethnicity.
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Women's Film and Female Experience, 1940-1950 (Discussion of Rosie the Riveter begins on p. 54) » Read Now
by Andrea S. Walsh. 260 pgs.

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Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States (Discussion of Rosie the Riveter begins on p. 275) » Read Now
by Alice Kessler-Harris. 400 pgs.

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Faces of Feminism: An Activist's Reflections on the Women's Movement (Discussion of Rosie the Riveter begins on p. 52) » Read Now
by Sheila Tobias. 336 pgs.

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"Tobias objectively surveys the pitfalls & the triumphs along the way." Ms. "Were one teaching a course on American feminism from its origins in the nineteenth century to its contemporary travails, [this] would be the perfect text." San Francisco Review "An especially welcome resource for young...
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"Tobias objectively surveys the pitfalls & the triumphs along the way." Ms. "Were one teaching a course on American feminism from its origins in the nineteenth century to its contemporary travails, [this] would be the perfect text." San Francisco Review "An especially welcome resource for young women trying to make sense of the women's movement before becoming enmeshed in its battles." New York Times Book Review "An essential work for anyone who wants to learn, or learn more, about women's activism. An excellent, accessible work; highly recommended." Library Journal
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The Paradox of Change: American Women in the 20th Century (Discussion of Rosie the Riveter begins on p. 129) » Read Now
by William H. Chafe. 247 pgs.

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When William Chafe's The American Woman was published in 1972, it was hailed as a breakthrough in the study of women in this century. Bella Abzug praised it as "a remarkable job of historical research," and Alice Kessler-Harris called it "an extraordinarily useful synthesis of material about...
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When William Chafe's The American Woman was published in 1972, it was hailed as a breakthrough in the study of women in this century. Bella Abzug praised it as "a remarkable job of historical research," and Alice Kessler-Harris called it "an extraordinarily useful synthesis of material about 20th-century women." But much has happened in the last two decades--both in terms of scholarship, and in the lives of American women. With The Paradox of Change, Chafe builds on his classic work, taking full account of the events and scholarship of the last fifteen years, as he extends his analysis into the 1990s with the rise of feminism and the New Right. Chafe conveys all the subtleties of women's paradoxical position in the United States today, showing how women have gradually entered more fully into economic and political life, but without attaining complete social equality or economic justice. Despite the gains achieved by feminist activists during the 1970s and 1980s, the tensions continued to abound between public and private roles, and the gap separating ideals of equal opportunity from the reality of economic discrimination widened. Women may have gained some new rights in the last two decades, but the feminization of poverty has also soared, with women constituting 70% of the adult poor. Moreover, a resurgence of conservatism, symbolized by the triumph of Phyllis Schlafly's anti-ERA coalition, has cast in doubt even some of the new rights of women, such as reproductive freedom. Chafe captures these complexities and contradictions with a lively combination of representative anecdotes and archival research, all backed up by statistical studies. As in The American Woman, Chafe once again examines "woman's place" throughout the 20th century, but now with a more nuanced and inclusive approach. There are insightful portraits of the continuities of women's political activism from the Progressive era through the New Deal; of the contradictory gains and losses of the World War II years; and of the various kinds of feminism that emerged out of the tumult of the 1960s. Not least, there are narratives of all the significant struggles in which women have engaged during these last ninety years--for child care, for abortion rights, and for a chance to have both a family and a career. The Paradox of Change is a wide-ranging history of 20th-century women, thoroughly researched and incisively argued. Anyone who wants to learn more about how women have shaped, and been shaped by, modern America will have to read this book.
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War and American Popular Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia (Discussion of Rosie the Riveter begins on p. 298) » Read Now
by M. Paul Holsinger. 479 pgs.

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Spanning more than 400 years of America's past, this book brings together, for the first time, entries on the ways Americans have mythologized both the many wars the nation has fought and the men and women connected with those conflicts. Focusing on significant representations in popular culture, it...
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Spanning more than 400 years of America's past, this book brings together, for the first time, entries on the ways Americans have mythologized both the many wars the nation has fought and the men and women connected with those conflicts. Focusing on significant representations in popular culture, it provides information on fiction, drama, poems, songs, film and television, art, memorials, photographs, documentaries, and cartoons. From the colonial wars before 1775 to our 1997 peacekeeper role in Bosnia, the work briefly explores the historical background of each war period, enabling the reader to place each of the more than 500 entries into their proper context.
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Now Hiring: The Feminization of Work in the United States, 1900-1995 (Chap. 5 "Women Answer the War Call: The 1940s") » Read Now
by Julia Kirk Blackwelder. 312 pgs.

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...Now Hiring Now Hiring The Feminization of Work in the United States, 1900-1995 Julia Kirk Blackwelder TEXAS...Copyright 1997 by Julia Kirk Blackwelder Manufactured in the...
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Daddy's Gone to War: The Second World War in the Lives of America's Children (Chap. 5 "Working Mother's and Latchkey Children") » Read Now
by William M. Tuttle Jr.. 368 pgs.

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Looking out a second-story window of her family's quarters at the Pearl Harbor naval base on December 7, 1941, eleven-year-old Jackie Smith could see not only the Rising Sun insignias on the wings of attacking Japanese bombers, but the faces of the pilots inside. Most American children on the home...
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Looking out a second-story window of her family's quarters at the Pearl Harbor naval base on December 7, 1941, eleven-year-old Jackie Smith could see not only the Rising Sun insignias on the wings of attacking Japanese bombers, but the faces of the pilots inside. Most American children on the home front during the Second World War saw the enemy only in newsreels and the pages of Life Magazine, but from Pearl Harbor on, "the war"--with its blackouts, air raids, and government rationing--became a dramatic presence in all of their lives. Thirty million Americans relocated, 3,700,000 homemakers entered the labor force, sparking a national debate over working mothers and latchkey children, and millions of enlisted fathers and older brothers suddenly disappeared overseas or to far-off army bases. By the end of the war, 180,000 American children had lost their fathers. In "Daddy's Gone to War", William M. Tuttle, Jr., offers a fascinating and often poignant exploration of wartime America, and one of generation's odyssey from childhood to middle age. The voices of the home front children are vividly present in excerpts from the 2,500 letters Tuttle solicited from men and women across the country who are now in their fifties and sixties. From scrap-collection drives and Saturday matinees to the atomic bomb and V-J Day, here is the Second World War through the eyes of America's children. Women relive the frustration of always having to play nurses in neighborhood war games, and men remember being both afraid and eager to grow up and go to war themselves. (Not all were willing to wait. Tuttle tells of one twelve year old boy who strode into an Arizona recruiting office and declared, "I don't need my mother's consent...I'm a midget.") Former home front children recall as though it were yesterday the pain of saying good-bye, perhaps forever, to an enlisting father posted overseas and the sometimes equally unsettling experience of a long-absent father's return. A pioneering effort to reinvent the way we look at history and childhood, "Daddy's Gone to War" views the experiences of ordinary children through the lens of developmental psychology. Tuttle argues that the Second World War left an indelible imprint on the dreams and nightmares of an American generation, not only in childhood, but in adulthood as well. Drawing on his wide-ranging research, he makes the case that America's wartime belief in democracy and its rightful leadership of the Free World, as well as its assumptions about marriage and the family and the need to get ahead, remained largely unchallenged until the tumultuous years of the Kennedy assassination, Vietnam and Watergate. As the hopes and expectations of the home front children changed, so did their country's. In telling the story of a generation, Tuttle provides a vital missing piece of American cultural history.
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Riveting and Rationing in Dixie: Alabama Women and the Second World War » Read Now
by Mary Martha Thomas. 150 pgs.

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...Jane Who Made the Planes" as well as the famous "Rosie the Riveter," whose peroxide curls were tied for safety in a...Alabama women followed in the footsteps of the famous...
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The Gender Gap in Earnings during World War II: New Evidence, in Industrial & Labor Relations Review » Read Now
by Mark Aldrich. 15 pgs.

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...of women in factory employment, or more generally on the gains of female blue-collar workers -- that is, on "Rosie the Riveter." I analyze some of this information below to...