Week Three Annotated Bibliography

February 16, 2011

This is my third annotated bibliography.


Honey, Maureen. Creating Rosie the Riveter: class, gender, and propaganda during World War II. 2nd printing, with revisions. Massachusetts: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1984. 13-32. eBook.

Honey is providing multiple arguments in her introduction from different perspectives for the driving forces behind why American women became involved in the work force during World War II. She also discusses the background information of the propaganda that was created after women began taking over their husbands’ positions and why it caused controversy with the typical gender roles during that time in America. Some historians, such as William Chafe, believe that that war accelerated the movement of women. Rosie the Riveter became the new “stereotype” for women in the work force because she represented a new working class of women who went beyond homemaking. Married women especially because they had to cover for their husbands if they wanted to keep a paycheck coming into their house. Leila Rupp is on the other end of the argument by believing the war had no impact on the participation rate of women in the labor force.