Discussion Questions
March 8, 2016

1. What does Vera Brittain tell us about the home front experience generally, and about the female home front experience specifically?
2. Who is the 123rd Recruiting Leaflet directed to - men or women?  What are the themes or appeals evident in the leaflet? 
3. The social commentary of Punch can be quite satirical and cutting at times.  What does Punch have to say about the home front, and about women?
4. What was the 'marraine de guerre'?  What were her idealized characteristics?
5. According to Grayzel, marraines were "necessary objects of war"?  Why were they necessary and what were their roles?
6. Grayzel argues that the war threatened traditional notions of morality in France.  What was the relationship of the marraine to that change?
7. In Britain, what was the connection between war work and social class?  According to Watson, what war work was socially acceptable by class?
8. What were the concerns over morality regarding war work?  What were the class dimensions of those concerns?
9. Why was the female uniform such a contentious issue in wartime Britain?
10. What were the concerns over morality in connection to women's war work?  What were the class dimensions of those concerns?
11. How did the articles by Grayzel and Watson in any way reshape your previous views of the home front, home front unity, or women's war work?