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Entangling Alliances

Foreign War Brides and American Soldiers in the Twentieth Century
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Throughout the twentieth century, American male soldiers returned home from wars with foreign-born wives in tow, often from allied but at times from enemy nations, resulting in a new, official category of immigrant: the "allied" war bride. These brides began to appear en masse after World War I, peaked after World War II, and persisted through the Korean and Vietnam Wars. GIs also met and married former "enemy" women under conditions of postwar occupation, although at times the US government banned such unions. In this comprehensive, complex history of war brides in 20th-century American history, Susan Zeiger uses relationships between American male soldiers and foreign women as a lens to view larger issues of sexuality, race, and gender in United States foreign relations. Entangling Alliances draws on a rich array of sources to trace how war and postwar anxieties about power and national identity have long been projected onto war brides, and how these anxieties translate into public policies, particularly immigration.
Acknowledgments Introduction 1 "Cupid in the AEF" U.S. Soldiers and Women abroad in World War I 2 "The Worst Kind of Women" Foreign War Brides in 1920s America 3 GIs and Girls around the Globe The Geopolitics of Sex and Marriage in World War II 4 "Good Mothers" GI Brides after World War II 5 Interracialism, Pluralism, and Civil Rights War Bride Marriage in the 1940s and 1950s 6 The Demise of the War Bride Korea, Vietnam, and Beyond Notes Index About the Author
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