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Thanks for the Memories: Love, Sex, and World War II
- ISBN-10:
- 0275988791
- ISBN-13:
- 9780275988791
- Pub. Date:
- 09/30/2006
- Publisher:
- Bloomsbury Academic
- ISBN-10:
- 0275988791
- ISBN-13:
- 9780275988791
- Pub. Date:
- 09/30/2006
- Publisher:
- Bloomsbury Academic
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Overview
The collective consciousness of World War II revolved around the virtues of bravery, sacrifice, and commitment. Members of The Greatest Generation toed political and social lines in hopes of winning the war. They fell into lockstep, asking very few questions, and breaking few social and sexual mores. Or did they?
In fact, World War II was—like all wars—a time of sexual experimentation and a general loosening of morals. It was a time of conflicting emotions and conflicting messages, a time of great sacrifice, and a time of discovery, when some groups, especially woman, experienced a relaxing of bonds that had kept them in check. Thanks For The Memories: Love, Sex, and World War II the true story of how the World War II generation responded to the passions of war, and how those passions changed their lives-and the relationships between the sexes-forever. But this book is more than that. As Jane Mersky Leder writes, Thanks for the Memories opens the hearts and memories of a generation that is dying, by one estimate, at the rate of more than 1,000 a day. It exposes the sexual and romantic escapades of The Greatest Generation and underscores how those four war years revolutionized relationships (including those between gays), and how it helped set the stage for the second wave of the women's liberation movement. Many who never thought their stories mattered, Leder writes, now feel the pull of limited time, and the importance of leaving an accurate account for their children and grandchildren of what it was like to be a young man or young woman during World War II. This is their collective story.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780275988791 |
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Publisher: | Bloomsbury Academic |
Publication date: | 09/30/2006 |
Edition description: | 1ST |
Pages: | 240 |
Product dimensions: | 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.56(d) |
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Table of Contents
Introduction Prologue: To My Parents—Morris and Shirley Mersky Chapter One: Derailed Dreams Chapter Two: "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition" Chapter Three: "Eat, Drink, and Be Merry, for Tomorrow We May Die" Chapter Four: Discrimination in the Ranks Chapter Five: An Army of Service Wives Chapter Six: Waiting Wives and Home Front Popular Culture Chapter Seven: "Over Sexed, Over Fed, Over Paid, Over There" Chapter Eight: "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" Chapter Nine: Babies, Suburbia, and the Seeds of Change Selected Bibliography Index Photo essays appear following pages 74 and 154What People are Saying About This
"Lively, moving, evocative and memorable, Thanks For the Memories brings back to us the extraordinary changes that occurred among women and men during World War II, and re-creates for us their pain, joy and courage."
"Jane Mersky Leder recounts the stories of ordinary people in extraordinary times, and brings the World War II era to life. Beautifully written and poignant, sometimes romantic but not always. Thanks for the Memories recounts how men and women during World War II sought love, sex and security in the midst of the upheavals of wartime."
"Thanks for the Memories vividly portrays the disruptive impact of World War II on relations between men and women, not only in the well documented arena of labor force participation but also in the realms of sex, love, and marriage. The wartime generation, known for its conservative embrace of traditional domesticity in the 1950s, did so after having broken all the rules. Jane Mersky Leder makes a persuasive case that the women's movement in the late 1960s was an aftershock of these seismic shifts whose story, until now, has not been told."
Elaine Tyler May
"Jane Mersky Leder recounts the stories of ordinary people in extraordinary times, and brings the World War II era to life. Beautifully written and poignant, sometimes romantic but not always. Thanks for the Memories recounts how men and women during World War II sought love, sex and security in the midst of the upheavals of wartime."
Elaine Tyler May, author of Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
William H. Chafe
"Lively, moving, evocative and memorable, Thanks For the Memories brings back to us the extraordinary changes that occurred among women and men during World War II, and re-creates for us their pain, joy and courage."
William H. Chafe, the Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of History, Duke University
Sara M. Evans
"Thanks for the Memories vividly portrays the disruptive impact of World War II on relations between men and women, not only in the well documented arena of labor force participation but also in the realms of sex, love, and marriage. The wartime generation, known for its conservative embrace of traditional domesticity in the 1950s, did so after having broken all the rules. Jane Mersky Leder makes a persuasive case that the women's movement in the late 1960s was an aftershock of these seismic shifts whose story, until now, has not been told."
Sara M. Evans, University of Minnesota, author of Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America