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From Skirts Ahoy! to M*A*S*H, Private Benjamin, G.I. Jane, and JAG, films and television shows have grappled with the notion that military women are contradictory figures, unable to be both effective soldiers and appropriately feminine. In Soldiers’ Stories, Yvonne Tasker traces this perceived paradox across genres including musicals, screwball comedies, and action thrillers. She explains how, during the Second World War, women were portrayed as auxiliaries, temporary necessities of “total war.” Later, nursing, with its connotations of feminine care, offered a solution to the “gender problem.” From the 1940s through the 1970s, musicals, romances, and comedies exploited the humorous potential of the gender role reversal that the military woman was taken to represent. Since the 1970s, female soldiers have appeared most often in thrillers and legal and crime dramas, cast as isolated figures, sometimes victimized and sometimes heroic. Soldiers’ Stories is a comprehensive ...
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Keywords
- Femininity
- History and criticism
- KUnlatched
- Masculinity
- Media & Communications
- Military
- Nursing
- Performing Arts
- Performing Arts / Television
- PERFORMING ARTS / Television / History & Criticism
- Rape
- United States
- War films
- Women and the military
- Women in motion pictures
- Women in the military
- Women soldiers in mass media
- World War II
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DOI: 10.1215/9780822393351Editions
