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.

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Yorick Smaal is ARC DECRA Research Fellow at Griffith University, Australia. He is an Australian social historian with particular interests in sex and gender, war and society, and law and criminal justice.

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Introduction
PART I: THE SCRIPTS

1. Bitch and Butch Men
2. Queer Geographies
   PART II: THE SERVICES
3. Men in Uniform
4. Confused Commanders
   PART III: THE STATE
5. Preoccupied Policemen
6. Disoriented Doctors
   Epilogue