Artikel
"Dykes" or "whores" : sexuality and the Women's Army corps in the United States during World War II
Verfasst von:
Hampf, M. Michaela
in:
New York [u.a.]:
2004
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13 - 30 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Hampf, M. Michaela |
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| Jahr: | 2004 |
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| When the women's Army corps (WAC) was founded in the United States in 1943, utilizing American womanpower was a matter of military expediency. At the same time, military service provided many women with mobility, education, and greater economic and personal autonomy. women soldiers were subject to rumors and hostility by the public and media that found the stereotypical "feminine" to be irreconcilable with the stereotypically masculine "soldier" and considered both lesbian and heterosexual women's sexual agency a threat to milityry masculinity and established gender roles. Archival records of the U.S. Army show that women's sexuality was controlled by discourses of desexualization and/or hypersexualization, by policies denying their sexual agency and of their vitimization. The WAC leadership created an image of the "respectable" female soldier based on assumptions about the calss and ra e nature of sexual morality... | |
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