War Propaganda
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Poster art was a leading form of propaganda used by all belligerrents in the First World home front. Posters also demonized the enemy and glorified the sacrifices of soldiers to better rationalize the unprecedented loss of life and national wealth.
The posters shown here, from a wide range of combatant nations during the war, share a common desire to link the war effort to a set of assumptions about the different roles assigned to men and women in the national struggle.
Questions for Analysis
Write out your answers to the questions below and then submit them as determined by your instructor.
Why would nationalists resort to such gendered images in a time of crisis?
What do these images tell us about the way that feelings of national belonging are created and sustained in times of urgency?
How might the changes that the war brought about—an increase in the number of women working in industry or outside the home, increased autonomy for women in regard to their wages or management of their household affairs—have affected the way that individuals responded to such images?
Image A: women of Britain, say go
Image B: women holding a tool
Image C: women standing in front of a cross
Image D: is a monkey holding a woman
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