The home-front war
Subtitle: World War II and American society
By: edited by Kenneth Paul O'Brien and Lynn Hudson Parsons.
Contributors: O'Brien, Kenneth Paul.; Parsons, Lynn H.
Series: Contributions in American history,; no. 161
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- United States.; United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945.; United States -- History -- 1933-1945.; United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.
Other titles: World War II and American society
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-204) and index.
"Prepared under the auspices of the Research Foundation of the State University of New York and the National Endowment for the Humanities".
Table of contents: title: World War II and the Bill of Rights / Richard Polenberg; title: Hollywood and the politics of representation : women, workers, and African-Americans in World War II movies / Clayton R. Koppes; title: Creating "common ground" on the home front : race, class, and ethnicity in a 1940s quarterly magazine / William C. Beyer; title: "My children are my jewels" : Italian-American generations during World War II / George E. Pozzetta; title: Remembering Rosie : advertising images of women in World War II / Maureen Honey; title: Women defense workers in World War II : views on gender equality in Indiana / Nancy F. Gabin; title: "The vice admiral" : Margaret Chase Smith and the investigation of congested areas in wartime / Janann Sherman; title: Did the "good war" make good workers? / John Modell; title: Bad news from the good war : democracy at home during World War II / Roger Daniels.