Home Front Households: Patriotism in the Domestic Sphere During WWII
Author(s): Shauna M. Mundt
Year: 2019
Summary
This is an abstract from the "Exploring the Recent Past" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
WWII was a time of significant cultural upheaval in the United States. America’s participation in the war produced substantial changes to gender roles, consumer behavior, advertising, labor, children’s activities, and entertainment, and saw a swell in expressions of nationalism and patriotism. By analyzing a collection of WWII-era artifacts that includes games and toys, puzzles, models and model kits, books, pamphlets, household, and decorative items, I examine the ways women and children experienced the war in their homes through material culture. The primary focus of this paper is how children’s toys and everyday domestic items reflected the war and became a method of delivery for government propaganda and expressions of patriotism.
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Home Front Households: Patriotism in the Domestic Sphere During WWII. Shauna M. Mundt. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, St. Charles, MO. 2019 ( tDAR id: 449076)
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Keywords
General
Material Culture
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propaganda
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World War II
Geographic Keywords
United States of America
Temporal Keywords
World War II
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
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Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 200