Women In War Advertisements

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The media overwhelms a lot of our lives and is so bold as to try and tell us as individuals how we be and how we should act. That’s the main point overall that I perceived from each of these advertisements and posters that are shown to us throughout our textbook. These particular visual sources are focusing on women and what kind of women they should want to be. This first advertisement I wish to discuss is Figure 8.8 on page 502 of our textbook. This particular poster is of a female who is in need of protecting. This woman is meant to represent America and is war propaganda trying to urge men to join in the war efforts by volunteering to sign up for the military. It seems were used a lot in these types of posters simply to entice men and

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