ABSTRACT
Vera Brittain, like other young women of her class and age, may have felt initially that little could be done to aid the war effort, and that there was little that the nation needed women to do. Thus, from the very start, wartime media in a variety of nations – whether produced by men or women – called upon women specifically. Britain, which began the war with a volunteer army and thus had rapidly to recruit men, provides a particularly potent example of the process of using images of women and home in order to motivate men. Propaganda also reminded women that work on the land was as essential as any other form of national support. In addition to both the official reports of German abuses and the visual propaganda depicting them, the British Parliamentary Recruiting Office issued a series of pamphlets directed at women that called upon images of German atrocities.
