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Circus in the Brain

Julia Laite: Sex and War, 10 February 2022

Dear John: Love and Loyalty in Wartime America 
by Susan L. Carruthers.
Cambridge, 327 pp., £25, 978 1 108 83077 5
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... continued to trouble the boundary between love and sex, and between sex and war.In her new book, Susan Carruthers sets out to explore the long and surprisingly complicated story of the ‘Dear John’ break-up letter sent by American women to US troops serving overseas. But her account offers insights into a broader entanglement, involving the ...

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