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Controlling sex in captivity : POWs and sexual desire in the United States during the Second World War

Title
Controlling sex in captivity : POWs and sexual desire in the United States during the Second World War / Matthias Reiss.
Author
Reiss, Matthias, 1968-
Publication
London : Bloomsburg Academic, 2018.

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Description
231 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  • World War (1939-1945)
  • 1900-1999
  • Prisoners of war > Sexual behavior > History > United States > 20th century
  • World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, American
  • Germans > Sexual behavior > History > United States > 20th century
  • Italians > Sexual behavior > History > United States > 20th century
  • Fraternization > History > 20th century
  • Women and war > United States > History > 20th century
  • Fraternization
  • Women and war
  • United States
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-220) 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.
Call Number
JFE 18-7648
ISBN
  • 9781350060616
  • 1350060615
LCCN
  • 2017061327
  • 40028301000
OCLC
1010982973
Author
Reiss, Matthias, 1968- author.
Title
Controlling sex in captivity : POWs and sexual desire in the United States during the Second World War / Matthias Reiss.
Publisher
London : Bloomsburg Academic, 2018.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-220) and index.
Chronological Term
1900-1999
Other Form:
Online version: Reiss, Matthias. Controlling sex in captivity. London : Bloomsburg Academic, 2018 9781350060623 (DLC) 2018001790
Other Standard Identifier
40028301000
Research Call Number
JFE 18-7648
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