An American Brothel : : Sex and Diplomacy during the Vietnam War / / Amanda Boczar.
In An American Brothel, Amanda Boczar considers sexual encounters between American servicemen and civilians throughout the Vietnam War, and she places those fraught and sometime violent meetings in the context of the US military and diplomatic campaigns.In 1966, US Senator J. William Fulbright decla...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The United States in the World
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 8 b&w halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Note on Vietnamese Names and Terms
- Introduction: The Political Legacies of Personal Encounters
- 1. Vietnam in the American Mind from the Colonial Era through the 1950s
- 2. Morale, Morality, and the “American Brothel”
- 3. Vietnamese Eradication Efforts and the Americanization of Sexual Policy
- 4. Love and Companionship
- 5. The Policing and Policy Problems of Sexual Violence
- 6. De-escalation and the Collapse of an Industry
- Conclusion: Reframing the Diplomatic History of the Vietnam War
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index