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“My joy, my all are you”, propaganda postcard

A woman standing at the window at home looking hopefully into the distance. Underneath, a soldier in battle. The postcard suggests a strict separation between the front and the hinterland: While the men go to war, the women remain behind in the “blessed homeland”.

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    On Loving Women and War-Loving Men

    The outbreak of the First World War saw a change in accepted gender roles. Where there had previously been an opposition of masculine/public and feminine/private, a new form of differentiation emerged, defining the front as masculine and the home(land) as feminine.