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Record Nr.

UNINA9910564694003321

Titolo

Prisoners of War and Local Women in Europe and the United States, 1914-1956 : Consorting with the Enemy / / edited by Matthias Reiss, Brian K. Feltman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022

ISBN

9783030838300

3030838307

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (314 pages)

Collana

Genders and Sexualities in History, , 2730-9487

Disciplina

355.1296

Soggetti

Europe - History - 1492-

World War, 1939-1945

United States - History

Social history

Sex

History of Modern Europe

History of World War II and the Holocaust

US History

Social History

Gender Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction; Brian K. Feltman and Matthias Reiss -- PART I: THE FIRST WORLD WAR -- Sexual Desire in Enemy Hands: The Sex Lives of German Prisoners of War in The United Kingdom, 1914-1919; Brian K. Feltman -- Sex on the Margins: Fraternizing in Times of War and Revolution; Lena Radauer -- ‘Dishonorable’ Women and ‘Foreign’ Men: Illicit Sexuality as Challenge to the German Volksgemeinschaft, 1914-1918; Lisa Todd -- Encounters beyond Frontlines: Prisoners of War and Women in the Habsburg Empire during the First World War; Julia Walleczek-Fritz -- PART II: THE SECOND WORLD WAR -- Community and Gender During War: The Amorous Relationships of Western POWs and German Women in Nazi Germany; Raffael Scheck -- Fueling the



Moral Panic: Fraternization between Axis Prisoners of War and Women in the United States during World War II; Matthias Reiss -- 'Helmut can be a worker, not a lover': Relationships between Germans POWs andFrench Women in Post-War France, 1944-1948); Fabien Théofilakis -- Intimacy, Treason, and Racial Defilement: POWs and Women in the Soviet-German War; Andreas Hilger -- 'Undesirable Familiarity': British Womanhood and Italian Prisoners in World War II;Barbara Hately and Bob Moore -- The End of a Phenomenon? Fraternization after the Second World War; Brian K. Feltman and Matthias Reiss.

Sommario/riassunto

This book brings together historians from Great Britain, the United States, Germany, France, Canada, Austria, and Latvia who have worked and published on fraternisation between Prisoners of War and local women during either the First or Second World War, providing the first comparative study of this multi-faceted phenomenon in different belligerent countries. By focusing on prisoners as wartime migrants and studying the nature and impact of their interactions with the local female population, this book expands the existing framework on prisoner of war studies. Its substantial scope and comparative approach make it an important point of reference in the growing research field of POW studies. .