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Creating Rosie the Riveter : class, gender, and propaganda during World War II / Maureen Honey.

By: Honey, Maureen, 1945-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Massachusetts : University of Massachusetts Press, c1984Description: x, 251 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 9780870234446; 0870234447.Subject(s): Women -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Women in mass media -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Women -- Employment -- United States -- History -- 20th century | World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- United States | Women -- United States -- Social conditions | Women in advertising -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Women in literature | World War, 1939-1945 -- PropagandaDDC classification: 305.420973
Contents:
Creation of the myth -- Middle-class images of women in wartime -- The working-class woman and the recruitment campaign -- Class differences in the portrayal of women war workers.
Summary: Examines advertisements and fiction published in the Saturday Evening Post and True Story in order to show how propaganda was used to encourage women to enter the work force.

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Creating Rosie the Riveter examines advertisements and fiction published in the Saturday Evening Post and True Story in order to show how propaganda was used to encourage women to enter the work force.

Bibliography: (pages 241-248) and index.

Creation of the myth -- Middle-class images of women in wartime -- The working-class woman and the recruitment campaign -- Class differences in the portrayal of women war workers.

Examines advertisements and fiction published in the Saturday Evening Post and True Story in order to show how propaganda was used to encourage women to enter the work force.

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MAUREEN HONEY is professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.