‘Soldiers and Shirkers’: Modernity and New Zealand Masculinity During the Great War

Tracks the emergence of the cultural expressions around notions of modern masculinity and how they manifested in wartime discourse. Seeks to understand how archetypes and antitypes of men continued societal ideas about masculinity through language, imagery and social commentary more intensely durng the war. Looks at the connections between the public and media constructs of masculine qualities and the process of propaganda as both vertical and horizontal. Source: National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand Licence.