| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.3

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Book Review

From the Battlefront to the Bridal Suite: Media Coverage of British War Brides, 1942–1946. By Barbara G. Friedman. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007. xii, 154 pp. $19.95, ISBN 978-0-8262-1718-9.)

Within months of the arrival of American G.I.'s on British shores in 1942, soldiers and civilians began marrying. By the time the war was over and after the passage of the War Brides Act of 1945, which allowed foreign wives to enter as non-quota or preferred immigrants, over seventy thousand British war brides had immigrated to the United States. Barbara G. Friedman's interesting account focuses on the changing representations of the British war bride in British and American newspapers, women's magazines, and armed services publications. Though lacking necessary context about the changing relationship between marriage and the state, or any significant dialogue about the racial and ethnic component to those representations, her comparative treatment reveals important differences in the way the media constructed white womanhood on both sides of the Atlantic.

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