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‘Who said this is a Man's War?’: propaganda, advertising discourse and the representation of war worker women during the Second World War

  • Yesil B
Media History (2004) 10(2) 103-117
DOI: 10.1080/1368880042000254838
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The Second World War required the employment of millions of new female workers and reallocation of thosr who already had been working to major war industries. Propaganda was essential to drive recruitment and to assimilate women into the workforce.

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Yesil, B. (2004). ‘Who said this is a Man’s War?’: propaganda, advertising discourse and the representation of war worker women during the Second World War. Media History, 10(2), 103–117. https://doi.org/10.1080/1368880042000254838

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