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Hanoi Jane: War, Sex, and Fantasies of Betrayal (Culture and Politics in the Cold War and Beyond) by Lembcke, Jerry is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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From Aristophanes' Lysistrata to the notorious Mata Hari and the legendary Tokyo Rose, stories of female betrayal during wartime have recurred throughout human history. The myth of Hanoi Jane, Jerry Lembcke argues, is simply the latest variation on this enduring theme. Like most of the iconic femmes fatales who came before, it is based on a real person, Jane Fonda. And also like its predecessors, it combines traces of fact with heavy doses of fiction to create a potent symbol of feminine perfidypart erotic warrior-woman Barbarella, part savvy antiwar activist, and part powerful entrepreneur. Hanoi Jane , the book, deconstructs Hanoi Jane, the myth, to locate its origins in the need of Americans to explain defeat in Vietnam through fantasies of home-front betrayal and the emasculation of the national will-to-war. Lembcke shows that the expression "Hanoi Jane" did not reach the eyes and ears of most Americans until five or six years after the end of the war in Vietnam. By then, anxieties about America's declining global status and deteriorating economy were fueling a populist reaction that pointed to the loss of the war as the taproot of those problems. Blaming the antiwar movement f
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- Author
- Lembcke, Jerry
- Publisher
- University of Massachusetts Press
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781558498150
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Military, Political Science, History
- Rating
- 4.1 / 5 (14 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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