UID:
almafu_9959677577102883
Format:
1 online resource (477 p.)
ISBN:
9786613251954
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1-283-25195-7
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0-8223-9328-X
Series Statement:
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Content:
Essays explore the social impact of America s global network of military bases by examining interactions between U.S. soldiers and members of host communities in South Korea, Japan/Okinawa, and West Germany.
Note:
Description based on print version record
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Introduction: the politics of gender, sexuality, race, and class in the U.S. military empire / Maria Hohn 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 H[MARC+95]hn -- 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 Hohn -- 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 Hohn -- 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 Hohn and Seungsook Moon.
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8223-4827-6
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8223-4818-7
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780822393283
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822393283
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822393283
