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A Mouthful of Rivets

Author: Nancy Baker Wise
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 328

Book Description
An oral history of the women who took part in the war effort on the home front.

Our Mothers' War

Author: Emily Yellin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439103585
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 484

Book Description
Our Mothers' War is a stunning and unprecedented portrait of women during World War II, a war that forever transformed the way women participate in American society. Never before has the vast range of women's experiences during this pivotal era been brought together in one book. Now, Our Mothers' War re-creates what American women from all walks of life were doing and thinking, on the home front and abroad. These heartwarming and sometimes heartbreaking accounts of the women we have known as mothers, aunts, and grandmothers reveal facets of their lives that have usually remained unmentioned and unappreciated. Our Mothers' War gives center stage to one of WWII's most essential fighting forces: the women of America, whose extraordinary bravery, strength, and humanity shine through on every page.

Beyond Rosie the Riveter

Author: Donna B. Knaff
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700619666
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
The iconic bicep-flexing poster image of "Rosie the Riveter" has long conveyed the impression that women were welcomed into the World War II work force and admired for helping "free a man to fight." Donna Knaff, however, shows that "Rosie" only revealed part of the reality and that women depicted in other World War II visual art-both in the private sector and the military-reflected decidedly mixed feelings about the status of women within American society. Beyond Rosie the Riveter takes readers back to a time before television's dominance, to the golden age of print art and its singular power over public opinion. Focusing specifically on instances of "female masculinity" when women entered previously all-male fields, Knaff places these images within the context of popular discussions of gender roles and examines their historical, cultural, and textual contexts. As Knaff reveals, visual messages received by women through war posters, magazine cartoons, comic strips, and ads may have acknowledged their importance to the war effort but also cautioned them against taking too many liberties or losing their femininity. Her study examines the subtle and not-so subtle cultural battles that played out in these popular images, opening a new window on American women's experience. Some images implicitly argued that women should maintain their femininity despite adopting masculinity for the war effort; others dealt with society's deep-seated fear that masculinized women might feminize men; and many reflected the dilemma that a woman was both encouraged to express and suppress her sexuality so that she might be perceived as neither promiscuous nor lesbian. From these cases, Knaff draws a common theme: while being outwardly empowered or celebrated for their wartime contributions, women were kept in check by being held responsible for everything from distracting male co-workers to compromising machinery with their long hair and jewelry. Knaff also notes the subtle distinctions among the images: government war posters targeted blue-collar women, New Yorker content was aimed at socialites, Collier's addressed middle-class women, and Wonder Woman was geared to young girls. Especially through its focus on visual arts, Knaff's book gives us a new look at American society decades before the modern women's rights movement, torn between wartime needs and antiquated gender roles. It provides much-needed nuance to a glossed-over chapter in our history, charting the difficult negotiations that granted-and ultimately took back-American women's wartime freedoms.

Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office

Author: USA Patent Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1524

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Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office

Author: United States. Patent Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Patents
Languages : en
Pages : 1174

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Feminist Frontiers

Author: Verta Taylor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 652

Book Description
The most widely used anthology of feminist writings and the first to incorporate issues of sexual identity and sexual diversity, Feminist Frontiers has stood the test of time. With both classic and contemporary readings on cutting-edge topics that cut across disciplinary and generational lines, this text presents the full diversity of women's lives, exploring commonalities as well as interconnected differences. Feminist Frontiers offers analyses of the causes and consequences of gender inequality in interaction with class, race, ethnicity, sexuality, ability, and nationality. This anthology also introduces students to feminist theory and methodology. This edition maintains consistent coverage of diverse ethnicities and a global perspective, with greater attention to transgender issues and disability.

A Mouthful of Rivets

Our Mothers' War

Beyond Rosie the Riveter

Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office

Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office

Feminist Frontiers

Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office

Specifications and Drawings of Patents Issued from the U.S. Patent Office

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