Hanoi Jane
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Named for her opposition to US involvement in the Vietnam War, resulting in accusations of her being supportive of North Vietnam, whose capital was Hanoi during the war.
Proper noun
[edit]- (derogatory) A nickname of the American actress Jane Fonda.
- 2000, Robert Brent Toplin, Oliver Stone's USA: Film, History, and Controversy[1], page 138:
- Ironically, Jane Fonda, who in her Hanoi Jane days had ridiculed American fighting men, helped restore popular respectability to Vietnam veterans with her 1978 movie Coming Home.
- 2010, Jerry Lembcke, Hanoi Jane: War, Sex, & Fantasies of Betrayal[2], Univ of Massachusetts Press, →ISBN, page 3:
- Nevertheless, the figure of Hanoi Jane began to fade by the 1980s. The 1981 film On Golden Pond, which Jane Fonda made with her father, Henry Fonda, had a warm, familial feel that gave her image a "good daughter" varnish.