Occupying Power

Name: Occupying Power
Brand: Stanford University Press
SKU: 9780804788632
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Sex Workers and Servicemen in Postwar Japan

Autor: Sarah Kovner

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Väzba: Brožovaná

Vydavateľ: Stanford University Press

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The year was 1945. Hundreds of thousands of Allied troops poured into war-torn Japan and spread thro...

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Autor

Sarah Kovner

Jazyk

Angličtina

Väzba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydalo

2013

Stránok

240

EAN

9780804788632

ISBN

0804788634

Enbook ID

04719363

Vydavateľ

Stanford University Press

Hmotnosť

380

Rozmery

228 x 153 x 18

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The year was 1945. Hundreds of thousands of Allied troops poured into war-torn Japan and spread throughout the country. The effect of this influx on the local population did not lessen in the years following the war's end. In fact, the presence of foreign servicemen also heightened the visibility of certain others, particularly "panpan"--streetwalkers--who were objects of their desire. "Occupying Power" shows how intimate histories and international relations are interconnected in ways scholars have only begun to explore. Sex workers who catered to servicemen were integral to the postwar economic recovery, yet they were nonetheless blamed for increases in venereal disease and charged with diluting the Japanese race by producing mixed-race offspring. In 1956, Japan passed its first national law against prostitution, which produced an unanticipated effect. By ending a centuries-old tradition of sex work regulation, it made sex workers less visible and more vulnerable. This probing history reveals an important but underexplored aspect of the Japanese occupation and its effect on gender and society. It shifts the terms of debate on a number of controversies, including Japan's history of forced sexual slavery, rape accusations against U.S. servicemen, opposition to U.S. overseas bases, and sexual trafficking.

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