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The Portrayal of Women as A Hidden Weapon in World War One Graphic Art Propaganda

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dc.contributor.author Cooray, B.M.S.
dc.date.accessioned 2017-01-18T06:56:21Z
dc.date.available 2017-01-18T06:56:21Z
dc.date.issued 2016
dc.identifier.citation Cooray, B.M.S. 2016. The Portrayal of Women as A Hidden Weapon in World War One Graphic Art Propaganda. In proceedings of the 17th Conference on Postgraduate Research, International Postgraduate Research Conference 2016, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. p 57. en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://repository.kln.ac.lk/handle/123456789/15958
dc.description.abstract The war propaganda campaign during the First World War from 1914- 1918 is known as the first war in history, in which both the allies and the axis have devoted massive resources to producing propaganda systematically, in which mass media and propaganda have played a significant role in sustaining military campaign. Numerous print media, such as postcards, posters, comics, cartoons, Flyers, Newspapers, Paintings and magazines were published to keep the civilians informed about the occurring in the battlefield, while maintaining their morale and generating interest in war savings, loans and bonds while recruiting soldiers to the military. The role of women changed dramatically with the starting of the war, by recruiting them in to the jobs vacated by the men. With this Transformation of roles, women were used in war propaganda as victims of rape, torture and violence, as homemakers, as national allegories and as active participants of war applying moral and sexual pressure on men to be recruited in to the regiments. The Objective of this research is to examine the motifs of both allies and axis behind the portrayal of women in the graphic art war propaganda of the world war one. This research is based on selected war posters from both the allies and axis and on comparing how women were used in posters by each nation to achieve their military goals. According to the findings of the research, it was evident, that the propaganda campaign was subjected to a specific audience of the society. Therefore, the role of the women used in posters and the slogans were selected carefully, to appall the conscience of the audience with numerous subject matters, in which the most common were exploiting the mistakes made by the enemy, justifying war to the civilians, recruitment to the army forces, rewarding the sacrifices of the soldiers and conjuring up the feelings of required patriotism. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka en_US
dc.subject world war one en_US
dc.subject weapon en_US
dc.subject propaganda en_US
dc.subject portrayal of women en_US
dc.subject print media en_US
dc.title The Portrayal of Women as A Hidden Weapon in World War One Graphic Art Propaganda en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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