Posted: April 25th, 2025

Primary Source Analysis #2

Analyze a Primary Source from WASM or any primary source linked in the weekly reading since the last Primary Source Analysis.  This can be a photograph from the Life Magazine photoshoot; or from one of the documents in a selections we read from Women and Social Movements in prior weeks. 

Focus on the period 1890-1945. Do not do the same document or collection you did last time. If there is a collection of letters that interests you, you may select one powerful letter or just a few letters. It’s not expected or possible to do a whole set. If you haven’t read the feedback on your first Primary Source Analysis, do that first. This PSA is graded. You are expected to incorporate the suggestions for doing a PSA and feedback you received in this assignment.  

WEEK 11: Women, Gender, Rights, and WWII

Title Citation

Life Magazine, Women Weapons Testers Life Magazine (This loaded a little slowly for
me, but worked)

Watch: Life and Times of Rosie The Riveter
(If you don’t sign in to the Library first, you will
be prompted to sign in then you will be able
to play the video.)

The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter.
Emeryville, Calif: A Clarity Production with
the support of the National Endowment for
the Humanities, 1980.

Securing Childcare During WWII: The Case
of San Diego (Great primary sources for PSA.
You don’t have to read every primary source.
After watching the video introduction, dip into
these primary sources.)

Ciani, Kyle E Securing Childcare During
WWII: The Case of San Diego.(Alexandria,
VA: Alexander Street, 2022).

Japanese American Women During World
War II

Matsumoto, Valerie.
“JAPANESE-AMERICAN WOMEN
DURING WORLD WAR II.” In The
American West: The Reader, edited by
WALTER NUGENT and MARTIN RIDGE,
255–73. Indiana University Press, 1999.
https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt200604c.21.

Japanese American Women Speak on
Internment During World War II (video)

Women of the 6888th (website) (This Division
is now depicted in a Netflix film.)

Dennis Danneau, Japanese American
Women Speak on Internment During World
War II, Danneau Video Productions 2017.

6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion

WWII Hivemind Document An optional collaborative google doc for
students to drop new learnings, notes on the
impact of the War years on women, surprises
contained in the reading and film,
impressions from students who may have
visited the Rosie the Riveter National Park
site down in Richmond, or any family stories
that have been passed down through the
generations about WW II or the 1940s.

Meet the Rosies Fridays at the Rosie The
Riveter National Historic Park.

This is a public service announcement. The
Rosie The Riveter National Park has a docent
program with visits with women who worked
in the shipyards every Friday in 2024. These
“Rosies” are in their 90s! Go visit!

American Women’s History: A Very Short
Introduction, 95-99

Susan Ware. 2015. American Women’s History: A Very
Short Introduction. Very Short Introductions. Oxford:
Oxford University Press.

The New Crew: Women Testing Weapons During World War II

https://www.kanopy.com/en/csueastbay/video/179454

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https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt200604c.21

https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt200604c.21

https://www.womenofthe6888th.org/

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xhvU8QYPNTE1vMoRbsuuQx7dOnjJqm7CL4JlhjpBEgE/edit?usp=sharing

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