@article{1480341,
      recid = {1480341},
      author = {Hegarty, Marilyn E., },
      title = {Victory Girls, Khaki-Wackies, and Patriotutes : The  Regulation of Female Sexuality during World War II /},
      pages = {1 online resource :},
      abstract = {Victory Girls, Khaki-Wackies, and Patriotutes offers a  counter-narrative to the story of Rosie the Riveter, the  icon of female patriotism during World War II. With her  fist defiantly raised and her shirtsleeves rolled up, Rosie  was an asexual warrior on the homefront. But thousands of  women supported the war effort not by working in heavy war  industries, but by providing morale-boosting services to  soldiers, ranging from dances at officers' clubs to more  blatant forms of sexual services, such as  prostitution.While the de-sexualized Rosie was celebrated,  women who used their sexuality-either intentionally or  inadvertently-to serve their country encountered a  contradictory morals campaign launched by government and  social agencies, which shunned female sexuality while  valorizing masculine sexuality. This double-standard was  accurately summed up by a government official who dubbed  these women"patriotutes": part patriot, part  prostitute.Marilyn E. Hegarty explores the dual discourse  on female sexual mobilization that emerged during the war,  in which agencies of the state both required and feared  women's support for, and participation in, wartime  services. The equation of female desire with deviance  simultaneously over-sexualized and desexualized many women,  who nonetheless made choices that not only challenged  gender ideology but defended their right to remain in  public spaces.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1480341},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814790823.001.0001},
}