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| Title: | All the News That's Fit to Print: The Print Media of the Second World War and its Portrayal of the Gendered and Racial Identities of the War's Participants |
| Author: | Chetty, Suryakanthie |
| Year: | 2005 |
| Periodical: | South African Historical Journal |
| Issue: | 54 |
| Pages: | 30-53 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | South Africa |
| Subjects: | gender roles racism images periodicals newspapers World War II Literature, Mass Media and the Press History and Exploration Labor and Employment Ethnic and Race Relations Military, Defense and Arms Historical/Biographical mass media Sex Roles |
| External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02582470509464897 |
| Abstract: | During World War II, print media in South Africa functioned as a means of creating specific kinds of gendered and racial identities. An analysis of the magazine 'Libertas' and various newspapers between 1939 and 1945 allows for an understanding of the way in which gendered and racial identity was constructed during the war. The ideological position of 'Libertas' lay largely with the dominant political stance of the Union Party during World War II. Its audience was white and a particular kind of white masculinity was advocated for the combatants of the Union Defence Force. For the white women who were involved in the war as workers and members of the auxiliary services, there existed a glamorization of war work. The group considered auxiliary to the war effort were the African, Indian and coloured men who made up the Non-European Army Services. Some attention was paid to these men, particularly African men who were seen once again within the framework of 'warriors'. The debate around the exclusion of black men from playing equal roles to white troops in the war was a common theme throughout the war. Ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |
