Creating Rosie the Riveter: Class, Gender, and Propaganda during World War II

by Maureen Honey

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.

Genres: History, Nonfiction, Feminism, Read For School, World War II, 20th Century

264 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1984

About the author

Maureen Honey is a professor of English and women’s and gender studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is the author or editor of numerous works, including Shadowed Dreams: Women’s Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance and Double-Take: A Revisionist Harlem Renaissance Anthology.

Reviews

[Beth · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting examination of the "Rosie the Riveter" image during World War II, how it operated, and how it eventually did little to change women's position in American society, or women's labor.

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