History 1BB3: America and the World: The Twentieth Century

Dr. Stephen M. Streeter

McMaster University, Winter 2002

 

World War II: American Women on the Home Front

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I. World War II and the American Economy

War Production Board (WPB)

II. Woman's Sphere

cult of domesticity

III. Rosie the Riveter

Office of War Information (OWI) [OWI Records]
double day
"latchkey children"

Further Reading:
Women and War: Photographs from the Schlesinger Library
Collections

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