Title
- Gender & American Culture
Attribution
Meghan K. WinchellPublication Details
BookUniversity of North Carolina Press2008Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) D810.E8 W56 2008 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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To that end, Winchell explains, USO recruitment practices characterized white middle-class women as sexually respectable, thus implying that the sexual behavior of working-class women and women of color was suspicious. In response, women of color sought to redefine the USO’s definition of beauty and respectability, challenging the USO’s vision of a home front that was free of racial, gender, and sexual conflict. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
Notes
- "A Caravan book"–T.p. verso
Contents
- To make the boys feel at home : senior hostesses and gendered citizenship
- The loveliest girls in the nation
- Wartime socializing
- Nice girls didn’t, period : junior hostesses and sexual service
- Courtship and competition in the USO dance hall
ISBN
- 9780807832370
- 0807832375
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