media coverage of British war brides, 1942-1946
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Friedman, Barbara G.
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- WER 32 2007
- Thesaurus
- media, macht, gemengde huwelijken, tweede wereldoorlog, vrouwbeelden, Verenigd Koninkrijk, Verenigde Staten, 1940-1949, 20e eeuw
- Description
- American GIs in wartime England were instantly attractive to British women - especially in the absence of their fighting men. Some seventy thousand British war brides returned to the United States. In this book Friedman tells how Brithish and American mass media presented this phenomenon. She focuses on media representations of sexuality and marriage in wartime, showing how mass media interpretations turned from public suspicion of war brides to popular acceptance. She considers how the brides saw themselves compared to their media images and shows how the media co-opted brides as symbols of the Anglo-American 'special-friendship', postwar power imbalance, and gendered ideals of marriage and domestication.