Format:
1 online resource (242 pages)
ISBN:
9780804783460
Series Statement:
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University Ser.
Content:
Ordinary women helped restart Japan's postwar recovery by selling sex to Allied servicemen, but they were sacrificed as symbols of national shame by a country that has yet to recover full sovereignty.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Names and Nomenclature -- Introduction: A Special Business -- 1. "To Transship Them to Some Suitable Island": Making Policy in the Midst of Chaos -- 2. Violence, Commerce, Marriage -- 3. When Flesh Glittered: Selling Sex in Sasebo and Tokyo -- 4. Legislating Women: The Push for a Prostitution Prevention Law -- 5. The High Politics of Base Pleasures: Regulating Morality for the Postwar Era -- 6. The Presence of the Past: Controversies over Sex Work Since 1956 -- Conclusion: Beyond Victimhood -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780804776912
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780804776912
Language:
English
Keywords:
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