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Over there : living with the U.S. military empire from World War Two to the present /

A collection of essays exploring the world-wide U.S. military base system and its interplay with social relations of gender and sexuality in the U.S. and foreign host nations.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Höhn, Maria, 1955-, Moon, Seungsook, 1963-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2010.
Colección:Online access with subscription: Duke University Press.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the politics of gender, sexuality, race, and class in the U.S. military empire / Maria Höhn and Seungsook Moon
  • Regulating desire, managing the empire: U.S. military prostitution in South Korea, 1945-1970 / Seungsook Moon
  • "Pan-Pan girls" performing and resisting neocolonialism(s) in the Pacific Theater: U.S. military prostitution in occupied Japan, 1945-1952 / Michiko Takeuchi
  • "You can't pin sergeant's stripes on an archangel" : soldiering, sexuality, and U.S. Army policies in Germany / Maria Höhn
  • U.S. military families abroad in the post-Cold War era and the "new global posture" / Donna Alvah
  • Crossfire couples : marginality and agency among Okinawan women in relationships with U.S. military men / Chris Ames
  • Hidden soldiers : working for the "national defense" / Robin Riley
  • In the U.S. army but not quite of it : contesting the imperial power in a discourse of KATUSAs / Seungsook Moon
  • "The American soldier dances, the German soldier marches" : the transformation of Germans' views on GIs, masculinity, and militarism / Maria Höhn
  • In the middle of the road I stand transfixed / Christopher Nelson
  • The racial crisis of 1970-1971 in the U.S. military : finding solutions in West Germany and South Korea / Maria Höhn
  • Camptown prostitution and the imperial sofa : abuse and violence against transnational Camptown women in South Korea / Seungsook Moon
  • Abu Ghraib : a predictable tragedy? / Jeff Bennett
  • Conclusion: the empire at the crossroad? / Maria Höhn and Seungsook Moon.