April 27, 2008...7:08 pm

Good Work, Sister!: Women Shipworkers of WWII

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Winner of the Oral History Association’s 2007 Nonprint Format Award…..
A production of: The Northwest Women’s History Project

GOOD WORK SISTER! tells the stories of women shipyard workers of World War IIan eventful period in women’s economic and social history.
“In their OWN WORDS these women reveal the pride they took in their work and the loss they felt when they were once again relegated to women’s work at war’s end”
-Sherna Gluck, Director, Oral History Program, Dept of History,Co-Director, Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive,
California State University,Long Beach

“GOOD WORK SISTER! is impressively researched, packing an enormous amount of information into a short, lively presentation … an honest and complex picture of women’s wartime and post war experience…”

-Jesse Lemisch, Professor of History, Emeritus, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York

Northwest Women’s History Project
PO Box 5692
Portland, Oregon 97228
1-866-574-7837
mail@goodworksister.org

This is taking place at the Clark County Historical Museum, which is located at 1511 Main Street, Vancouver WA, at 7pm on Thursday, May 1st.

This event is sponsored by the Northwest Women’s History Project.

For more information, visit www.goodworksister.org

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