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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"War brides"”.
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Sentimental Journey?: The Immigrant Experience of World War II-Era War Brides in Montana
During and after World War II, over one hundred thousand American servicemen married women they met in the course of their deployment overseas. In early 1946, these women, commonly known as “war brides,” began to immigrate to the United States to join their husbands. Over one hundred of the women …
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Sentimental Journey?: The Immigrant Experience of World War II-Era War Brides in Montana
During and after World War II, over one hundred thousand American servicemen married women they met in the course of their deployment overseas. In early 1946, these women, commonly known as “war brides,” began to immigrate to the United States to join their husbands. Over one hundred of the women …
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Reflecting (on) the Orientalist Gaze: A Feminist Analysis of Japanese-U.S. GIs Intimacy in Postwar Japan and Contemporary Okinawa
… of two generations of Japanese women, "war brides," who married U.S. GIs and moved to the U.S. in the post-World War II era, and "military wives," who married U.S. GIs within the past twenty years and who currently live in Okinawa. My purpose in this study is to examine, reflect on, and …
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Cultural Assimilation : Case Studies of the Experiences of Post-War G.I. Brides
… and married American servicemen during the postwar period of 1950s–1960s experienced understandable cultural and conceptual assimilation as G.I. brides. English immigration, however, provided its own set of arduous cultural challenges that have been generally disregarded due to cultural …