Hanoi Jane

English

Etymology

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

Hanoi Jane

  1. (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.
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