Annotated Bibliography

Primary Sources:

“Bank of Scotland” Dundee Courier, Thursday 4^th April, 1946.

This article contributes to the contrasting methodology I’m using to write my dissertation. It is prevalent in this article that women are welcomed back into the workplace after World War II and their previous service is recognised and appreciated. This article has contributed to my understanding that women did return or remain in the workplace after World War II ended and were welcomed.

 

“House and Home” Hull Daily Mail, Thursday 14^th November, 1918.

In contrast to women being welcomed in the workplace after World War II, this article which was published after World War I is pledging to women to stay home. Women receive a small appraisal but the main focus of the article is that women have to go home to heal their household. Furthermore, it is stated in the article that a woman can no longer play her role in the workplace now the men have returned, she should return home.

 

Secondary Sources:

Reed, Stacey. “Victims or Vital: Contrasting Portrayals of Women in WWI British Propaganda.” (2014): 81-92.

This article contributes to my contrasting approach of emphasising the difference of women’s propaganda in World War I and World War II. Stacey highlights that between 1914 and 1918 propaganda portrayed women in two main personas. Either a helpless damsel in distress or a vital part of Britain’s war economy.

 

Carruthers, Susan L. “‘Manning the Factories’: Propaganda and Policy on the Employment of Women, 1939–1947.” History 75, no. 244 (1990): 232-256.

In contrast to World War I propaganda, in World War II female aimed propaganda was much more emancipated. There were various female mobilisation propaganda schemes such as films portraying women as nurses, airwomen and playing a vital role in industrial employment emphasising the efficiency of women in the workplace. This female aimed propaganda was on a much bigger scale in the 1940s in contrast to female propaganda in World War I.

 

Pyecroft, Susan. 1994. “British Working Women and the First World War.” The Historian 56 (4): 699.

Pyecroft highlights that despite women’s effort in the workplace in World War I, women either returned to the home after the war or were downgraded to traditional women’s jobs such as textiles. Furthermore, Pyecroft highlights that the percentage of women working by 1921 was lower than the percentage of working women in 1911.

Ward, Barbara. “Women in Britain.” Foreign Affairs 22, no. 4 (1944): 561-76.

In contrast, Ward highlights that World War II created a recognition and a need for women’s work in Britain. This is a valuable source for my research as Ward elaborates on women’s education and socialising throughout World War II which are potential topic sentences I would like to look further into in the process of my dissertation.