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Sex, soldiers and the South Pacific, 1939-45 : queer identities in Australia in the Second World War / Yorick Smaal, Griffith University, Australia.

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"Military 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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smaal, Yorick (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Series:Genders and sexualities in history.
Subjects:
Gay men > Australia > Queensland > History > 20th century.
Gay men > New Guinea > History > 20th century.
Gay military personnel > Australia > Queensland > History > 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 > Gay people.
World War (1939-1945)
Gay military personnel.
Gay men.
New Guinea.
Queensland.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • PART I: THE SCRIPTS
  • 1. Bitch and Butch Men
  • 2. Queer Geographies
  • PART II: THE SERVICES
  • 3. Men in Uniform
  • 4. Confused Commanders
  • PART III: THE STATE
  • 5. Preoccupied Policemen
  • 6. Disoriented Doctors
  • Epilogue.

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