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dc.contributor.authorSmaal, Yorick
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-24T01:20:06Z
dc.date.available2018-07-24T01:20:06Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.isbn9781137365132
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/978-1-137-36514-9
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/164991
dc.description.abstractMilitary and civilian worlds have an uneasy relationship. They inform and intersect with one another in complex and competing ways. Sex, Soldiers and the South Pacific, 1939-45 explores how life in and out of uniform shaped Australia's queer identities in the 1940s. Queensland - with its massive throngs of local and foreign servicemen - provides an unusually detailed tapestry that weaves together the complexities of homoerotic inclination and self-expression in Australia and the South Pacific. Gender would prove to be the central thread colouring dominant forms of identity for men, youths, and the authorities who responded to their behaviour. Effeminate cissies like young Errol, the Australian soldier Vernon and his American lover Jack, Paul the camp caf頯wner, soldiers like Edgar and Roger who stole intimate moments on an abandoned block by the Brisbane River, Eric and the girls in New Guinea, and the belles and trade among the Americans in Noumea, all reveal how the war and its immediate aftermath shaped contemporary male experiences. Together, they show us how men and youths forged new beginnings and possibilities, created circuits of thinking and practice at home and on forward bases, and employed strategies of resistance and negotiation in order to live happy and fulfilling lives.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherPalgrave Macmillan
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.subject.fieldofresearchAustralian history
dc.subject.fieldofresearchNorth American history
dc.subject.fieldofresearchSexualities
dc.subject.fieldofresearchHistorical studies
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode430302
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode430321
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode440506
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4303
dc.titleSex, Soldiers and the South Pacific, 1939-45: Queer Identities in Australia in the Second World War
dc.typeBook
dc.type.descriptionA1 - Books
dc.type.codeA - Books
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorSmaal, Yorick J.


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