| Author | Subject: the depiction of gender in 2nd WW poster propaganda |
| adam holden | Posted At 08:10:45 11/21/2002
i'm currently researching the methods that the goverment sought to control and manipulate ideas of gender within the second world war britain through the use of propaganda posters. I would be interested to hear peoples ideas on this subject. Adam Holden |
| lfc |
Re: the depiction of gender in 2nd WW poster propaganda (Currently 0 replies)
Posted At 11:38:34 12/05/2002 Although it's about WWI and post-WWI France, not WWII Britain, there is some material you might find interesting (re posters and other forms of wartime representation and their relation to gender) in Daniel Sherman's The Construction of Memory in Interwar France (U Chicago Press; pbk, 2001). |
| fiona |
Re: the depiction of gender in 2nd WW poster propaganda (Currently 0 replies)
Posted At 01:07:08 12/30/2002 A fantastic thing to do is to find a collection of such posters (often collated in books on WW propoganda) - always beneficial in understanding the effects of such propoganda and the thought processes involved on behalf of those creating and publishing it. Just one question, did the government actually 'control and manipulate' ideas of gender, or did they use cultural understandings of gender to control and manipulate the war effort and attitudes of the masses? |
| Emma |
Re: the depiction of gender in 2nd WW poster propaganda (Currently 0 replies)
Posted At 22:27:13 02/23/2003 It seems as if the government was trying to appeal to new ideas. Women wanted power, and they had the vote, so by depicting them as strong and useful was recognition of who they were and who they were becoming. Also, the men needed an emotional quality if they were to be drug into war. By creating hatred against mainly the Germans and Japanese, they were covering feelings of fear and doubt with hate and testosterone. How do you think patriotic views of the public were aroused? |