Politics - pt 5
"You are needed now" - Ruzzie Green - 1943.
After more research into war propaganda I stumbled across this poster for WW2. Created to try and enlist women to be war nurses for the soldiers. This poster was part of a collection of propaganda called "world war poster collection", which contained various different images trying to get the public to enlist for various different roles including nurses, soldiers, engineers and doctors.
The image shows a beautiful woman, wearing make up, also wearing army coloured items, hat and jacket, and cargo coloured shirt and tie. This appeals to the "American dream" image, in so far as it's a very put together woman waiting hopefully for the chance to help behind the front lines as her man fights. This reflects upon the idealist qualities American culture seems to crave according to current politic leaders and their history of politics. That not everyone should do every job, and these types of posters are a small snippet of what all this type of propaganda was like at the time, only men were advertised on posters to be active fighters and engineers.
Women were only advertised to car for them as nurses or to wait at home to raise children and support the families left behind. Wanting everyone to fit into neatly designed little cut outs of who is suitable for what based on gender norms. Just as trump is trying to do with decreeing a law against transgender people joining the armed forces, they don't fit into his neatly designed stencil of the ideal army, and therefore they are forbidden.
After more research into war propaganda I stumbled across this poster for WW2. Created to try and enlist women to be war nurses for the soldiers. This poster was part of a collection of propaganda called "world war poster collection", which contained various different images trying to get the public to enlist for various different roles including nurses, soldiers, engineers and doctors.
The image shows a beautiful woman, wearing make up, also wearing army coloured items, hat and jacket, and cargo coloured shirt and tie. This appeals to the "American dream" image, in so far as it's a very put together woman waiting hopefully for the chance to help behind the front lines as her man fights. This reflects upon the idealist qualities American culture seems to crave according to current politic leaders and their history of politics. That not everyone should do every job, and these types of posters are a small snippet of what all this type of propaganda was like at the time, only men were advertised on posters to be active fighters and engineers.
Women were only advertised to car for them as nurses or to wait at home to raise children and support the families left behind. Wanting everyone to fit into neatly designed little cut outs of who is suitable for what based on gender norms. Just as trump is trying to do with decreeing a law against transgender people joining the armed forces, they don't fit into his neatly designed stencil of the ideal army, and therefore they are forbidden.
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