THE FIRST WORLD WAR AND POPULAR CULTURE

March 31st- April 2nd 2006

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Social Control

Percy G5
Chair: Lucy Noakes


Carol Acton, St Jerome’s University, Canada
“Best Boys and Aching Hearts: The Rhetoric of Social Control in Wartime Magazines for Young Women”


Stella Moss, University of Oxford, UK
“Wartime Hysterics’?: Alcohol, Women and the Politics of Social Purity in England, 1914-1918”


Jane Potter, Oxford Brookes University, UK
“Uncle Sam Wants the Help of Every Women in the Land: Popular Culture, the First World War and the American Woman”