| Edition |
20th anniversary ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 377 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
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data file rda |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-359) and index. |
| Contents |
"Why we fight" -- Getting in -- Fitting in -- GI drag : a gay refuge -- "Gang's all here" : the gay life and vice control -- Fight for reform -- Pioneer experts : psychiatrists discover the gay GI -- Comrades in arms -- Fighting another war -- Rights, justice, and a new minority -- Legacy of the war. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Subject |
United States. Army -- History -- World War, 1939-1945.
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United States. Navy -- History -- World War, 1939-1945.
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United States. Army. (OCoLC)fst00533532
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United States. Navy. (OCoLC)fst00533204
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World War (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst01180924
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Gay.
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Gay military personnel -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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United States -- Armed Forces -- History -- 20th century.
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Gay people -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gay Studies.
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Armed Forces. (OCoLC)fst00814586
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Gay military personnel. (OCoLC)fst01740511
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Gays. (OCoLC)fst00939255
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
D'Emilio, John.
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Freedman, Estelle B., 1947-
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| Added Title |
History of gay men and women in World War II |
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History of gay men and women in World War Two |
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Gay men and women in World War II |
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Gay men and women in World War Two |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Bérubé, Allan. Coming out under fire. 20th anniversary ed. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2010 080787177X (DLC) 89025653 (OCoLC)667230935 |
| ISBN |
9780807899649 (electronic bk.) |
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080789964X (electronic bk.) |
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9781469604596 (electronic bk.) |
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1469604590 (electronic bk.) |
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