Occupying power [electronic resource] : sex workers and servicemen in postwar Japan / Sarah Kovner.
2012
HQ247.A5 K68 2012eb
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Occupying power [electronic resource] : sex workers and servicemen in postwar Japan / Sarah Kovner.
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9780804783460 (electronic bk.)
9780804776912
9780804776912
Publication Details
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2012.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xi, 226 p.) : ill., map.
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HQ247.A5 K68 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.740952/09045
Summary
The arrival of hundreds of thousands of Allied troops struck Japan like an earthquake, altering both the built environment and the country's psychological landscape. Made especially visible at the time were panpan--streetwalkers--desired by foreign servicemen. Though sex workers became symbols of Japan's diminished status, by earning scarce dollars they helped jumpstart economic recovery. But sex workers who catered to servicemen were a frequent target. They were blamed for increases in venereal disease and for diluting the Japanese race by producing mixed-race offspring.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
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Table of Contents
Introduction : a special business
"To transship them to some suitable island" : making policy in the midst of chaos
Violence, commerce, marriage
When flesh glittered : selling sex in Sasebo and Tokyo
Legislating women : the push for a prostitution prevention law
The high politics of base pleasures : regulating morality for the postwar era
The presence of the past : controversies over sex work since 1956
Conclusion : beyond victimhood.
"To transship them to some suitable island" : making policy in the midst of chaos
Violence, commerce, marriage
When flesh glittered : selling sex in Sasebo and Tokyo
Legislating women : the push for a prostitution prevention law
The high politics of base pleasures : regulating morality for the postwar era
The presence of the past : controversies over sex work since 1956
Conclusion : beyond victimhood.