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Book SynopsisThis book illuminates the crucial role the Vietnam War played in influencing gender roles in America. Heather Stur examines the ways in which ideas about masculinity shaped the American GI experience in Vietnam and, ultimately, how some American men and women returned from Vietnam to challenge home front gender norms.
Trade Review'Heather Stur provides us with a rangy and insightful exploration of how the Vietnam War reconstituted the political culture of gender in ways that were transformational and retrograde, life-affirming and violent, liberating and dehumanizing.' Christian G. Appy, author of Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides
'In an insightful examination of everything from the miniskirt to army rifle manuals, Beyond Combat reveals the ways gender and sexuality framed Americans' perceptions and experiences of the Vietnam War. This important work challenges what we think not only of the Vietnam War, but also of war-making and foreign policy more broadly.' Kara Dixon Vuic, author of Officer, Nurse, Woman: The Army Nurse Corps in the Vietnam War
Table of Contents1. Vietnamese women in the American mind: gender, race, and the Vietnam War; 2. 'She could be the girl next door': the Red Cross SRAO in Vietnam; 3. 'We weren't called soldiers, we were called ladies': WACs and nurses in Vietnam; 4. Gender and America's 'faces of domination' in Vietnam; 5. Liberating men and women: anti-war GIs speak out against the warrior myth.
