What Soldiers Do - Sex and the American Gi in World War II France

Informationen zum Autor Mary Louise Roberts is professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of Disruptive Acts: The New Woman in Fin-de-Siecle France and Civilization without Sexes: Reconstructing Gender in Postwar France! 1917-1927. Klappentext Drawing on an incredible range of sources! including news reports! propaganda and training materials! official planning documents! wartime diaries! and memoirs! Roberts tells the troubling story of how the U.S. military command systematically spread--and then exploited--the myth of French women as sexually experienced and available. Zusammenfassung How do you convince men to charge across heavily mined beaches into deadly machine-gun fire? The author tells the troubling story of how the US military command systematically spread - and then exploited - the myth of French women as sexually experienced and available. The resulting chaos horrified the war-weary and demoralized French population.

Product details

• Authors: Mary L. Roberts, Mary Louise Roberts, Roberts Mary Louise
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.05.2013
• EAN: 9780226923093
• ISBN: 978-0-226-92309-3
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 245 mm x 30 mm
• Series: emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; USA, Sociology, France, European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Europe / France, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Military / United States, Second World War, United States of America, USA, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Sociology: sexual relations, Sex and sexuality, social aspects, Modern warfare, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Sexuality, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater