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Author Winchell, Meghan K.

Title Good girls, good food, good fun : the story of USO hostesses during World War II / Meghan K. Winchell.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2008]
©2008

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Location Call No. Status
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  940.53 WIN    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  940.53082 WIN    Check Shelf
Description 255 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Series Gender and American culture
Gender & American culture.
Note "A Caravan book"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-238) and index.
Contents To make the boys feel at home : senior hostesses and gendered citizenship -- The loveliest girls in the nation -- Wartime socializing -- Nice girls didn't, period : junior hostesses and sexual service -- Courtship and competition in the USO dance hall.
Subject United Service Organizations (U.S.)
Soldiers -- Recreation -- United States -- History.
World War, 1939-1945 -- War work -- United States.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- United States.
Women -- United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
ISBN 9780807832370 cloth alkaline paper
0807832375 cloth alkaline paper
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