Meaning of Hanoi Jane | Babel Free

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A nickname for the American actress Jane Fonda.

derogatory

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

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