Beyond combat
Subtitle: women and gender in the Vietnam War
By: Heather Marie Stur
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780521762755; 9780521127417
Subjects: Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Social aspects; Sex role; Masculinity; Female Participation; HISTORY / United States / General; History; Women
Description: "Beyond combat : women and gender in the Vietnam War incorporates new voices into the Vietnam War narrative by looking at women's experiences. It also examines the ways in which ideas about masculinity shaped the American GI experience in Vietnam, ultimately how some American men and women returned from Vietnam to challenge home front gender norms"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Vietnamese women in the American mind : gender, race, and the Vietnam War; title: "She could be the girl next door" : the Red Cross SRAO in Vietnam; title: "We weren't called soldiers, we were called ladies" : WACs and nurses in Vietnam; title: Gender and America's "faces of domination" in Vietnam; title: Liberating men and women : antiwar GIs speak out against the warrior myth.