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The Central Wound,

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the coquettish "lady," Pestina:

(May 1961; "Going Abroad? Don't Help Hitchhikers"; pamphlet produced by USDA, printed by US GPO; contributed by National Agricultural Library to biodiversitylibrary. org/ item/178072 #page/4/mode/1up)

the blood-drinker, Ann:

(November 1943; "This is Ann: She's dying to meet you"; pamphlet authored by Munro Leaf, unattributed illustrations by Theodor Seuss Geisel, prepared by Special Service Division, Army Service Force, US Department of War; at David J. Sencer CDC Museum, in Public Domain)

US military keeps putting hot bug-girls in super-racist promotional media.

Getting plugged, drilled, and sucked by a dangerous gal. (August 1943; "This is Ann")

Nighttime pounding and "sissy stuff":

Typical hyper-racism:

Slightly different version--a poster--lamentation for "the poor GI" (1943; "This is Ann ... she drinks blood!"; also illustrated by Geisel; prepared by Special Service Division, Army Service Forces, US War Department; maintained by Smithsonian Libraries and digitized at USDA):

That same year (1943), "Ann the Awful" featured in the thirteen-minute-long animated (well, it's a "filmograph") film "Criminal at Large," produced by the Office of Malaria Control in War Areas, US Public Health Service (unattributed illustrators, but appears Chuck Jones-esque?).

Dialogue from the film:

"JOE: Well, I am looking for a man, but Scoop Magazine hires only the best! He's got to be good enough to get the story I want on a female who has the reputation of being the most dangerous criminal in the world! Her business is robbery and cold-blooded murder. I want a story and exclusive pictures on her hangout and how she operates. [...]

SAM: But who is this dame?

JOE: They call her Anne the Awful. Her gang is worse than the famous Ma Barker Gang. She's a thief and a killer, she stops at nothing. Scoop must expose this vicious criminal! [...]

SAM: Ann the Awful, gosh how can I find her? Well, this is my big chance - I gotta find her! Is she a pistol-packing gun moll, a bubble dancer, or uh, or, or uh a beautiful spy?"

Her girlfriend shows up later.

They tried to make Pestina a symbol of border maintenance. "Keep out pests/invaders!" and "foreigners are seducing you to hitchhike across the border" type of shit.

An "important message" (1970; Program aid no. 946; USDA; now at National Agricultural Library and biodiversitylibrary. org/item/179869 #page/3/mode/1up):

On left: 1966; Program aid no. 729; Agricultural Research Service, USDA; National Agricultural Library and biodiversitylibrary. org/item/178702 #page/3/mode/1up

On right: 1969; Program aid no. 915; Plant Quarantine Division, USDA; National Agricultural Library and biodiversitylibrary. org/item/179727 #page/3/mode/1up

US military was harassing and detaining women in "anti-prostitution" campaigns in occupied tropics during the war. mosquitoes as vectors of malaria equated to women cast as mere vectors of gonorrhea. quarantining women in hospital and managing health of soldiers while policing the border of the US camp in Panama circa 1944 paralleled by quarantining border-crossing travelers and produce at the national border circa 1966. US global military operations in "wartime" paralleled by federal agricultural department "anti-invasive" and "anti-pest" operations in "peacetime." US foreign conquest paralleled by US domestic border/purity/contagion anxieties. appeals made with racialized, sexualized, gendered caricatures.

Get Neel Ahuja, Ann Laura Stoler, and Anne McClintock on the phone.

From circa 1943-1945; Office for Emergency Management, Office of War Information, Domestic Operations Branch; maintained by US National Archives and Records Administration, National Archives Identifier 513498:

Yes, ma'am.

She's unnamed here (1944, US Army/US GPO, National Library of Medicine #191454783) but it's clear who she is: