The home-front war : World War II and American society / edited by Kenneth Paul O'Brien and Lynn Hudson Parsons.

"Prepared under the auspices of the Research Foundation of the State University of New York and the National Endowment for the Humanities".

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-204) and index.

World War II and the Bill of Rights / Richard Polenberg -- Hollywood and the politics of representation : women, workers, and African-Americans in World War II movies / Clayton R. Koppes -- Creating "common ground" on the home front : race, class, and ethnicity in a 1940s quarterly magazine / William C. Beyer -- "My children are my jewels" : Italian-American generations during World War II / George E. Pozzetta -- Remembering Rosie : advertising images of women in World War II / Maureen Honey -- Women defense workers in World War II : views on gender equality in Indiana / Nancy F. Gabin -- "The vice admiral" : Margaret Chase Smith and the investigation of congested areas in wartime / Janann Sherman -- Did the "good war" make good workers? / John Modell -- Bad news from the good war : democracy at home during World War II / Roger Daniels.