What soldiers do : sex and the American GI in World War II France / Mary Louise Roberts.
Roberts, Mary Louise.
2013
D769.8.S6 R63 2013 (Mapit)
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Title What soldiers do : sex and the American GI in World War II France / Mary Louise Roberts.
Author Roberts, Mary Louise.
ISBN 9780226923093 alk. paper
0226923096 alk. paper
9780226923116 pbk
0226923118 pbk
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2013.
Language English
Description xii, 351 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Call Number D769.8.S6 R63 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification 940.53/1
Summary How do you convince men to charge across heavily mined beaches into deadly machine-gun fire? If you're the US Army in 1944, one of your approaches is dangling the lure of beautiful French women, ready to reward their liberators in oh so many ways. Roberts tells the troubling story of how the US military command exploited the myth of French women as sexually experienced and available. The resulting sexual predation, and the blithe response of the American military leadership, caused serious friction between the two nations just as they were attempting to settle questions of long-term control over the liberated territories and the restoration of French sovereignty.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-340) and index.
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Romance
Soldier, liberator, tourist
The myth of the manly GI
Masters in their house
Prostitution
Amerilots and harlots
The silver foxhole
Dangerous indiscretions
Rape
The innocent suffer
Black terror on the bocage
Conclusion: two victory days.

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