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Poster, 'Women of Britain say - "Go!" '

Poster, 'Women of Britain say - "Go!" '
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Poster, 'Women of Britain say - "Go!" '
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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Collection
Te Papa Collections Online
Description

This famous British First World War poster powerfully captures the division between men and women during this period and cleverly manipulates the viewer into a noble motivation for enlisting – that of protecting women and children. However, the message of the poster is directed both at women, and by women to men, thereby assigning women the responsibility for ordering men into war. The women and child cling to each other within the safety of their home, but through the open window, discipline...

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Image
Date created
May 1915
Creator
Parliamentary Recruiting Committee / Hill, Siffken & Co. (L.P.A. Ltd.) / Edgar Kealey
URL
https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/1048230
Related subjects
Women / boys / Soldiers / World War, 1914-1918 / War / ink / wove paper / political posters / offset lithography / United Kingdom

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