ROSIE THE RIVETER

MORRIS COUNTY WOMEN DURING WORLD WAR II


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RELATED WEBSITES:

American Rosie the Riveter Association

http://www.rootsweb.com/~usarra/

Honors working women of World War II.

 

Rosie the Riveter

http://www.rosietheriveter.org/

Sponsored by Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park.

 

Rosie the Riveter: Real Women Workers in World War II

http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/journey/rosie.html
From the Journeys & Crossings division of the Library of Congress, this site “explores the evolution of "Rosie the Riveter" and discusses the lives of real women workers in World War II”.

 

Rosie the Riveter: Women Working During World War II
http://www.nps.gov/pwro/collection/website/home.htm

“…on-line exhibit of artifacts, photos, and stories of the American World War II Home Front.”

 

Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park
http://www.nps.gov/rori
Dedicated to …”preserve(s) and interpret(s) the stories and places of our nation's home front response to World War II.
 

Women in Military Service for America Memorial

http://www.womensmemorial.org
Website of the major national memorial honoring women who have served in our nation's defense during all eras and in all services.

 

World War II in New Jersey
http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/njh/ww2/index.htm

Resource from the Rutgers Special Collections and University Archives.

 

RESOURCES IN THE LEARNING RESOURCE CENTER AT COUNTY COLLEGE OF MORRIS:

Audiovisual Resources

The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter  Los Angeles, CA : Direct Cinema Ltd. 1987.   
Videorecording  D810.W7 L5 1987

 

Print Resources

Bitter Fruit: African American Women in World War IIColumbia [Mo.] : University of Missouri Press, 1999.
D810.N4 B4 1999
 

The Columbia Documentary History of American Women Since 1941.  New York : Columbia University Press, 2003.  HQ1420 .C65 2003

 

Hartmann, Susan M.  The Home Front and Beyond : American Women in the 1940s.  Boston : Twayne Publishers, 1982.  HQ1420 .H34 1982

 

Honey, Maureen.  Creating Rosie the Riveter : Class, Gender, and Propaganda During World War II.  
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 1984.   HQ1420 .H66 1984

 

The 1940s.  San Diego, Calif. : Greenhaven Press, 2000.  E169.1 .A1135 2000

 

Reid, Constance.  Slacks and Calluses : Our Summer in a Bomber Factory.  Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999.  TL724 .R45 1999

 

Rupp, Leila J.  Mobilizing Women for War : German and American Propaganda, 1939-1945.  Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1978.  D810.W7 R8

 

Saywell, Shelley.  Women in War Markham, Ont. : Viking, 1985 D810.W7 S39 1985

 

Yellin, Emily.  Our Mothers' War : American Women at Home and at the Front during World War II.  New
York : Free Press, 2004.  D810.W7 Y45 2004

 


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