Last Material Culture Quiz

Futurists

a group of writers and artists from Milan, Italy, led by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. Rejects anything that has to do with the past. Celebrated machines and new inventions that propel them into the future

“soft” for being mothers, caretakers, etc. 

Futurists though women were

the workforce

With men in the war, women enter

masculine jobs(bus drivers, farming, milkmen)

Women started fulfilling

making machinery, providing supplies for soldiers 

women participated in

Subservient to doctors

women served as nurses

being the caretaker 

Women(being nurses) still fit the western view of

“doing their part”

Women working was seen as

Dorothy Lawrence

• British Journalist 

• To write a story, disguised herself as a man to enlist in the war

• Spent 10 days 

• Wrote a memoir 

• Treated as a potential spy when returned home (eventually dismissed case) 

Maria Bochkareva

• Formed miliary unit: Russian women’s battalion of death (over 300 members) 

• Going to partcipate in the war in Russia 

• 1920:exceuted for firing this unit for subverting gender roles 

Spirit of 1914

• Sense of euphoria 

• Young men saw war as a way to prove their masculinity, travel, go on adventures

World War I Masculinity 

Heroic identity

Otto Dix

World War I painting by

way to prove their masculinity, travel, go on adventures

Young men saw war as a

is disrupted by reality

During the war, idea of masculinity

 paints personal experience on the battlefield

Otto Dix..

between men, women, older people(everyone)

National unity (spirit of 1914)

cheerful for the men in their lives

Media told women to be

sickle

the woman is holding a (soviet union image)

agricultural tool

a sickle is an

a hammer

the man is holding (soviet union image)

Soviet Union

the represents

to support a successful communist society

the hammer and the sickle represent the collective work necessary (both agricultural and cultural)

were both essential and necessary to supporting the state

it represents how both men and women(soviet union image)