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Author Reiss, Matthias, author.

Title Controlling sex in captivity : POWs and sexual desire in the United States during the Second World War / Matthias Reiss.

Publication Info. London : Bloomsburg Academic, 2018.

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Description 1 online resource (249 pages)
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Historiography -- Sources -- Editorial comments -- Encounters with the enemy -- Attraction and pity -- Hostile reactions -- Controlling heterosexual desire -- American women during the war -- Initiating contact -- The reasons for loosing the fight against fraternisation -- African Americans -- The failure of the non-fraternisation policy -- Controlling same-sex desire -- Policies on same-sex activities in the Axis and American armed forces -- Same-sex activities in POW camps in the United States -- American reactions to same-sex activities in POW camps.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Prisoners of war -- Sexual behavior -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, American.
Germans -- Sexual behavior -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Italians -- Sexual behavior -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Fraternization -- History -- 20th century.
Women and war -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Reiss, Matthias. Controlling sex in captivity :POWs and sexual desire in the United States during the Second World War. London : Bloomsburg Academic, 2018 249 pages 9781350060616 (DLC) 2018001790
ISBN 9781350060616
9781350060623 (ePDF)
9781350060630 (eBook)

 
    
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