"Editorials at a glance": cultural policy, gender, and modernity in the World War I Bureau of Cartoons.(Author abstract)(Editorial)(Video recording review)

Review of Policy Research, The, March, 2007 by Coventry, Michael T.

A Modern Paradox

It is a simple drawing from a working-class newspaper, drawn by a prominent World War I cartoonist: a statuesque woman representing Columbia stands with her right hand resting on the shoulder of a young Red Cross nurse. The nurse, clad in the vaguely nunlike garb common to their profession in the early 20th century, stands with her hands clasped demurely behind her. Columbia, dressed in Classical warrior costume, extends her left hand toward the viewer. The text implores, "Help Her Save Your Boys" (see Figure 1). In the drawing, the idealistic and stylized Columbia figure presents a relatively naturalistic nurse as her active agent in the "real world." Together, these women implore their American viewers to assist in the saving of "your boys"...

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