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Controlling sex in captivity : POWs and sexual desire in the United States during the Second World War / Matthias Reiss.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reiss, Matthias, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women and war.
- History.
- Fraternization.
- Italians.
- Germans.
- Prisoners of war.
- United States.
- Prisoners of war--Sexual behavior--United States--History--20th century.
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, American.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- 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:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 231 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Bloomsburg Academic, 2018.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-220) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Reiss, Matthias. Controlling sex in captivity.
- ISBN:
- 9781350060616
- 1350060615
- OCLC:
- 1010982973
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