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American soldiers and Italian women
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the sexual economy of occupied Naples, 1943-1945
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Ruvolo
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Francesca
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1990-
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Francesca Ruvolo
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Karen Caplan
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Advisory Committee
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chair
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - Newark
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eng
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By 1943, the effects of war had taken its toll on Naples as the city lay in ruins and its people were starving. They were described by soldiers as returning to the Dark Ages; hungry and craving for miracles and cures. What set Italy apart from other occupied areas was its dual occupation: by the Allies in the south and the Germans in the north. More specifically, Naples was the largest resting camp for Allied serviceman as well as a city governed by corruption and the mafia known as the Camorra. As the city of Naples grew desperate, a thriving black market emerged within the city’s broken walls. Moreover, as women were helpless and passive, ready to be taken physically by their occupiers, as well as the sole providers for their families, prostitution became commonplace. Thus, I will discuss the emergence of a sexual economy in Naples, most significantly how American soldiers have discussed Naples as a place of crime, prostitution, sexually-transmitted disease, and desperation. Finally, the ways in which American soldiers have been discussed in fiction, most significantly in The Skin and The Gallery, point to an American invasion rather than occupation. We are thus presented with a new American GI, one bordering on conqueror rather than liberator.
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History
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Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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1 online resource (vi, 105 p. : ill.)
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M.A.
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Includes bibliographical references
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World War, 1939-1945--Italy--Naples
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Military occupation
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Soldiers--Sexual behavior
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by Francesca Ruvolo
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Graduate School - Newark Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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doi:10.7282/T30G3NCV
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ETD graduate
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Francesca
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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