Manufactured Messaging
In movies, newspapers, posters, photographs and articles, there was a need for government to have images that women could identify with and rally around. In Canada that person was Veronica Foster AKA Ronnie the Bren Gun Girl. In the USA Rose Will Monroe is credited as the person behind the Rosie the Riveter campaign. Both of these created personas stressed the patriotic need for women to enter the work force.
Image references
Miller, J (1942), Rosie the Riveter, Retrieved from http://www.anb.org/articles/img/004893.jpg
National Film Board Library and Archives Canada (1941). Ronnie the Bren Gun Girl, Retrieved from https://40.media.tumblr.com/8f4bf19334e00c4ca5c9c8f85fcd88c7/tumblr_mnmh52fzPW1qa3xy5o1_400.jpg
Miller, J (1942), Rosie the Riveter, Retrieved from http://www.anb.org/articles/img/004893.jpg
National Film Board Library and Archives Canada (1941). Ronnie the Bren Gun Girl, Retrieved from https://40.media.tumblr.com/8f4bf19334e00c4ca5c9c8f85fcd88c7/tumblr_mnmh52fzPW1qa3xy5o1_400.jpg
Feedback Activity
Create a new caption for the Rosie the Riveter poster using a Meme generator that best captures the information reviewed so far or take a picture of yourself striking the pose of Rosie in the poster above that shows your interpretation (with caption) of one of the two aspects of emotional messaging used in this section, the positive "do your part" approach or the negative "something bad may happen if you don't do your part" warning (Students can include communities they belong to in their images, ( i.e. sporting team, school community, home life, etc). Post and share finished images to Twitter with the hashtag #posinglikeRosie for review and comment.
Create a new caption for the Rosie the Riveter poster using a Meme generator that best captures the information reviewed so far or take a picture of yourself striking the pose of Rosie in the poster above that shows your interpretation (with caption) of one of the two aspects of emotional messaging used in this section, the positive "do your part" approach or the negative "something bad may happen if you don't do your part" warning (Students can include communities they belong to in their images, ( i.e. sporting team, school community, home life, etc). Post and share finished images to Twitter with the hashtag #posinglikeRosie for review and comment.
Additional WW2 propaganda constructed campaigns of Women in work: Rubble Women (Germany), Women’s Land Army (Britian)