WWII Propaganda: Rosie the Riveter & Women’s War Work, Comic Book Heroes & Iconography.

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WWII Propaganda: Rosie the Riveter & Women’s War Work, Comic Book Heroes & Iconography

Propaganda:  Any media campaign (radio, tv, movies, magazines, internet, advertisements, “news,”) that seeks to convince people of a particular idea.  That idea/propaganda can be a positive idea like “Girls Are As Smart As Boys.”  Or the idea/propaganda can be negative, like “All Muslims are Terrorists.”  It’s not always easy to tell propaganda– it looks like regular media. It doesn’t come with labels!

Rosie as Propaganda:  Realities of both European and Pacific Theaters  Plus, Stuff for a 2 Front War—Different stuff. a TWO FRONT WAR  12 Million American Soldiers by End of War

Waged Work Not Just for Poor Women Anymore. Waged Work as PATRIOTIC.

Whole Lotta Rosies

I. Women’s Waged War Work: Let’s Do the Numbers  1930: 22% Working Age Female Employment  1940: 25% “  1945: 37%  6.5 Million Women added to workforce  Or 1 in 4 of Married Women at WAGED work (cause they’re all doing unwaged work– right?)  350,000 Women joined the Armed Services  310,000 women worked in aircraft industries, or 65% of total work force

II. Women’s Military Service A. WAC: Women’s Army Aux. Corp B. WAVES: Navy Women’s Auxiliary

 C. Marine Corp Women’s  Reserve D. SPARS: Women’s Coast Guard Aux.  E. WASP: WOMEN’S AIRFORCE SERVICE PILOTS

 F. Army Nurse Corp  *54,000 Active Duty  *217 Black Nurses  *66 POWs  E. Navy Nurse Corp:  *11,000 Active Duty  *11 POWs  * 24 Flight Nurses

III. Women’s Non-Military and Volunteer Work A. OSS: Office of Strategic Services: Sisterhood of Spies --Julia Child and Marlene Dietrich B. American Red Cross: Nursing, Relief Supplies, Entertainment

 C. United Service Organization: Programs, Services and Entertainment to Military personnel.

IV. Women’s Domestic Work Victory Gardens:

Conservation as Patriotism

Wonder Woman: A Rosie!  Introduced by DC Comics, Jan., 1942, to Suggest Female Power, Sexual Equality and Women’s Role in Fighting “Evil.”

How Much Progress Have We Made? Iconography Lesson!

Norman Rockwell’s Rosie

Bad/Racist Propaganda:  Anti-German Propaganda–  to encourage Americans to  help in the fight against the  Nazis. Like Wonder Woman!

Anti-Japanese Propaganda:

MUCH More Racist than the German Stuff... Remember Anti-Asian Racism Lecture? Asian Guy as Sexual Predator. Remember Sambo?

Time for the Superman Video!