Coming out under fire :: the history of gay men and women in World War II /

During World War II, as the United States called on its citizens to serve in unprecedented numbers, the presence of gay Americans in the armed forces increasingly conflicted with the expanding antihomosexual policies and procedures of the military. In Coming Out Under Fire, Allan Berube examines in...

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1. Verfasser: Bérubé, Allan
Weitere Verfasser: D'Emilio, John, Freedman, Estelle B., 1947-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2010.
Ausgabe:20th anniversary ed.
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Zusammenfassung:During World War II, as the United States called on its citizens to serve in unprecedented numbers, the presence of gay Americans in the armed forces increasingly conflicted with the expanding antihomosexual policies and procedures of the military. In Coming Out Under Fire, Allan Berube examines in depth and detail these social and political confrontations-not as a story of how the military victimized homosexuals, but as a story of how a dynamic power relationship developed between gay citizens and their government, transforming them both. Drawing on GIs' wartime letters, extensive int.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiii, 377 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) :)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-359) and index.
ISBN:9780807899649
080789964X
9781469604596
1469604590