Victory Girls, Khaki-Wackies, and Patriotutes : The Regulation of Female Sexuality during World War II / Marilyn E. Hegarty.
2007
HQ18.U5 H42 2008eb
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Victory Girls, Khaki-Wackies, and Patriotutes : The Regulation of Female Sexuality during World War II / Marilyn E. Hegarty.
Author
Hegarty, Marilyn E., author.
ISBN
9780814790823
Published
New York, NY : New York University Press, [2007]
Copyright
©2007
Language
English
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In English.
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1 online resource : 9 black and white illustrations
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10.18574/nyu/9780814790823.001.0001 doi
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HQ18.U5 H42 2008eb
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306.7082/097309044
Summary
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.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations List
Introduction
1 The Long Arm of the State
2 Prelude to War
3 "Reservoirs of Infection"
4 "A Buffer of Whores"
5 "Spell 'IT' to the Marines"
6 Behind the Lines
7 Conclusion
Appendix 1: The Eight Point Agreement
Appendix 2: The May
Appendix 3: Federal Agencies: The Social Protection Division
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations List
Introduction
1 The Long Arm of the State
2 Prelude to War
3 "Reservoirs of Infection"
4 "A Buffer of Whores"
5 "Spell 'IT' to the Marines"
6 Behind the Lines
7 Conclusion
Appendix 1: The Eight Point Agreement
Appendix 2: The May
Appendix 3: Federal Agencies: The Social Protection Division
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author