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Sex, Soldiers and the South Pacific, 1939-45

Sex, Soldiers and the South Pacific, 1939-45 Queer Identities in Australia in the Second World War

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Genders and Sexualities in History

Sex, Soldiers and the South Pacific, 1939-45

Queer Identities in Australia in the Second World War

Yorick Smaal

History / Social History

Sex, Soldiers and the South Pacific, 1939-45 explores the queer dynamics of war across Australia and forward bases in the south seas. It examines relationships involving Allied servicemen, civilians and between the legal and medical fraternities that sought to regulate and contain expressions of homosex in and out of the forces.

Yorick Smaal is ARC DECRA Research Fellow at Griffith University, Australia. He is an Australian social historian with particular interests in sex and gender, war and society, and law and criminal justice.


Publication Date: 04 August 2015
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN-13: 9781137365132
Format: Hardback
Page Count: 250

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