Rosie's Daughters: The First Woman to Generation Tells Its Story, Second Edition
Butler, Matilda; Bonnett, Kendra
Language: English
Published by Knowledge Access Publishing, 2012
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- Title
- Rosie's Daughters: The First Woman to Generation Tells Its Story, Second Edition
- Author
- Butler, Matilda; Bonnett, Kendra
- Publisher
- Knowledge Access Publishing
- Publication year
- 2012
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 098412781X
- ISBN 13
- 9780984127818
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Item weight
- 1.34 pounds
Rosie the Riveter is a mythic figure in our culture, with good reason--she built ships, flew bombers and filled thousands of other essential wartime jobs, upending traditional views of "women's work. When the war was over, however, American industry thanked Rosie and sent her home.
Rosie's Daughters flung wide the doors of employment opportunity that Rosie had unlocked. These women can claim more career "firsts" and greater socio-cultural change than any other generation.
Momentous events at eventful moments in their lives shaped their remarkable journeys--the post-war education boom, sexual revolution and the Pill, civil rights and gender equality, the Vietnam War, NOW and consciousness raising, Roe v. Wade, no-fault divorce, old fields to conquer and new ways to work.
Rosie's Daughters: The "First Woman To" Generation is an inspiring collective memoir of the generation of women born during World War II who excelled at "firsts" in large numbers - in the amount of education, in the numbers of divorces, in the presence in the workforce holding jobs previously occupied only by men. Laugh and cry as these women, Rosie the Riveter's daughters, tell their generational stories for the first time. Learn from the lessons of their lives as you shape your future.
For as long as people have sought opportunity, fought injustices, explored uncharted frontiers and striven to accomplish more, a few men and women have always earned the position of being The First: First Man on the Moon, First Woman Nobel Laureate, First Female Senator and First African-American Graduate of a Major University. But it takes more than one individual's achievement to change perceptions at the societal level.
Since the country's founding, women have achieved firsts. But they achieved them primarily as isolated distinctions. That is, when a woman achieved "firstness" of a particular kind, other women did not immediately follow. When Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman physician in 1849, she was not soon followed by a large number of female physicians. Belva Ann Lockwood's achievement in 1872 to become the first woman admitted to practice law before the U.S. Supreme Court did not spur numerous female lawyers to follow. When Jeannette Rankin was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1916, women across the country did not follow her into Congress. As important as their achievements were, these individuals did not break down barriers or change societal perceptions.
Matilda Butler and Kendra Bonnett's insightful analysis, explored in Rosie's Daughters: The "First Woman To" Generation Tells Its Story, shows that women's "firsts" result in real change when they achieve two milestones. First they involve a critical mass of women. Second, they occur under ordinary circumstances. Rosie's generation achieved the first milestone but not the second. Millions of Rosies stepped into traditional male roles. They did change societal perceptions of women's abilities, but in the extraordinary circumstances of wartime.
Rosie's Daughters have been able to achieve both milestones.
The "First Woman To"-Generation, or FW2-Generation as Butler and Bonnett have titled them, broke the actual and perceived barriers to female participation in society. They succeeded in turning their firsts into accepted roles for themselves and subsequent generations of women.
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About the Author
Butler is also the co-author of the award-winning Writing Alchemy: How to Write Fast and Deep (2012), co-editor of the four volume anthology of Seasons of Our Lives (Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter) (2014), and editor of the two-volume memoir anthology Tales of Our Lives (Fork in the Road and Reflection Pond) (2015). She is the co-founder of WomensMemoirs.com and RosiesDaughters.com.
Co-author Kendra Bonnett, a business executive, author, and historian with a long list of book and article publications, teams with Butler to chronicle the lives of the unique generation of women born during World War II who shaped the experiences of the follow-on Baby Boom generation.
Bonnett is the co-founder of WomensMemoirs.com, the co-author of Writing Alchemy, and the co-editor of Seasons of Our Lives.
Based on the popular series of Rosie's Daughters presentations, Butler and Bonnett created a unique line of Rosie the Riveter gear such as authentic red and white polka dot bandanas, Rosie the Riveter employment badges/collar pins, a DIY Rosie's Legacy Portrait Kit, Rosie the Riveter mugs and more that they market through their Etsy store, Rosies Legacy Gear.
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