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Occupying power : sex workers and servicemen in postwar Japan /

'Occupying Power' shows how intimate histories and international relations are interconnected in ways scholars have only begun to explore, and will shift the terms of debate on a number of controversies, including Japan's history of forced sexual slavery.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kovner, Sarah (Sarah C.), 1973-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2012.
Colección:Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.