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

• Main Author: Smaal, Yorick (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
• Series: Genders and Sexualities in History
• Subjects: History.; History, Modern.; Islands of the Pacific > History.; World War, 1939-1945.; Civilization > History.; Social history.; Sexual behavior.; Sexual psychology.; Cultural History.; History of World War II and the Holocaust.; Social History.; Modern History.; Australasian History.; Sexual Behavior.
• Physical Description: XXIII, 250 p. online resource.
• ISBN: 9781137365149

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.