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Fight like a man? Masculinity in WW2

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The Corporeality of the Second War

Dudley Cave writes about how in the Japanese prisoner war camps, there was one soldier who was sort of almost gender fluid and answered to a female name. How was that perceived by these soldiers? What did they see themselves as that was a homosexual act or not? Again, it's just all very, it's also so slippery, really.

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