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Victory girls, khaki-wackies, and patriotutes : the regulation of female sexuality during World War II
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ISBN: 0814790828 0814737269 9780814737262 9780814790823 9780814737040 0814737048 0814737390 9780814737392 Year: 2008 Publisher: New York : New York University Press,

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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 i


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Infidel feminism : secularism, religion and women's emancipation, England 1830-1914
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ISBN: 1781704937 9781781704936 1526130661 9781526130662 9780719085826 0719085829 0719097282 Year: 2013 Publisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press,

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An in-depth study of a distinctive brand of women's rights that emerged out of the Victorian Secularist movement, looking at the lives and work of a number of female activists, whose renunciation of religion shaped their struggle for emancipation.

Sex and manners : female emancipation in the West, 1890-2000
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ISBN: 1412929180 0803983697 1446222098 1446236293 1280370920 9786610370924 1412933870 9781412933872 9781412929189 9781446222096 9780803983694 9781446236291 9781280370922 6610370923 Year: 2004 Volume: *16 Publisher: London : SAGE,

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A cross-cultural study of manners, this text examines changing relationships between the sexes, with its focus on how women have asserted their social independence in American, British, Dutch & German society.

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