uses on women in her books with strong feelings on the importance of women's roles throughout history. Without any indication on the role men played, Honey does not represent the effects men had on the events of World War II. The University of Massachusetts Press published Creating Rosie the Riveter in 1984. The late 1970's and early 1980's presented a time that was similar to the World War II era in that "the concept of equal pay for work of comparable worth, dating from the World War II era, reappeared in policy debates and union negotiations in the mid-1970's."5 This time period brought about many reforms and women who wanted equality with men. Honey represents women during World War II and how the roles of women in the labor force did not change significantly as a result of the war. This subject is controversial during this decade due to the views of women wanting equal pay and privileges in comparable jobs with men.
             Creating Rosie the Riveter begins by describing the different groups that the propaganda targeted. Honey outlines the strategies that propaganda used in order to motivate women to mobilize for the war. By examining the Saturday Evening Post, Honey investigates the response of writers, editors, and advertisers to the propaganda appeal to the middle-class by using advertising to make war jobs parallel homemaking, such as comparing cutting cookies to stamping metal. Advertisers targeted middle-class women with the idea that war-work had the reward of male approval. Honey states that "[w]omen who took war jobs in order to meet their obligations as patriotic citizens found romance whereas those who did not respond to government entreaties lost the respect of men."6 Honey also looks at True Story, a magazine that seeks the working-class woman. Similar to the middle-class romances, the confessions in True Story focus on developing love affairs between the working heroin...