Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hampf, M. Michaela

Titel

Victory Girls, Khaki-Wackies, and Patriotutes: The Regulation of Female Sexuality during World War II

Ist Teil von

• The Journal of American History, 2009, Vol.95 (4), p.1221-1221

Ort / Verlag

Oxford: Organization of American Historians

Erscheinungsjahr

2009

Quelle

Oxford Journals 2020 Humanities

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The campaign by the army and civilian authorities to fight the spread of venereal disease focused almost exclusively on women as the vectors of contagion. Popular magazines conveyed those contradictions by condemning female promiscuity while at the same time portraying sexuality as a "female wartime obligation" (p. 112) and valorizing women who "did their part" by "befing his Pin-up Girl" (p. 123).