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Victory Girls, Khaki-Wackies, and Patriotutes - The Regulation of Female Sexuality during World War II (Paperback)
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Victory Girls, Khaki-Wackies, and Patriotutes - The Regulation of Female Sexuality during World War II (Paperback)
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Victory Girls, Khaki-Wackies, and Patriotutes offers a
counter-narrative to the story of Rosie the Riveter, the icon of
female patriotism during World War II. With her fist defiantly
raised and her shirtsleeves rolled up, Rosie was an asexual warrior
on the homefront. But thousands of women supported the war effort
not by working in heavy war industries, but by providing
morale-boosting services to soldiers, ranging from dances at
officers' clubs to more blatant forms of sexual services, such as
prostitution. While the de-sexualized Rosie was celebrated, women
who used their sexuality-either intentionally or inadvertently-to
serve their country encountered a contradictory morals campaign
launched by government and social agencies, which shunned female
sexuality while valorizing masculine sexuality. This
double-standard was accurately summed up by a government official
who dubbed these women"patriotutes": part patriot, part prostitute.
Marilyn E. Hegarty explores the dual discourse on female sexual
mobilization that emerged during the war, in which agencies of the
state both required and feared women's support for, and
participation in, wartime services. The equation of female desire
with deviance simultaneously over-sexualized and desexualized many
women, who nonetheless made choices that not only challenged gender
ideology but defended their right to remain in public spaces.
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