Sanitized Sex (eBook)

Regulating Prostitution, Venereal Disease, and Intimacy in Occupied Japan, 1945-1952

Robert Kramm (Autor)

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2017
320 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-96869-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Sanitized Sex analyzes the development of new forms of regulation concerning prostitution, venereal disease, and intimacy during the American occupation of Japan after the Second World War, focusing on the period between 1945 and 1952. It contributes to the cultural and social history of the occupation of Japan by investigating the intersections of ordering principles like race, class, gender, and sexuality. It also reveals how sex and its regulation were not marginal but key issues in postwar empire-building, U.S.-Japanese relations, and American and Japanese self-imagery. The regulation of sexual encounters between occupiers and occupied was closely linked to the disintegration of the Japanese empire and the rise of U.S. hegemony in the Asia-Pacific region during the Cold War era. Shedding new light on the configuration of postwar Japan, the process of decolonization, the postcolonial formation of the Asia-Pacific region, and the particularities of postwar U.S. imperialism, Sanitized Sex offers a reading of the intimacies of empires—defeated and victorious.

Inhalt

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction
1 Comforting the Occupiers: Prostitution as Administrative Practice in Japan at the End of World War II
2 Security: Policing Prostitution and Venereal Disease in Occupied Japan
3 Health: Preventing, Diagnosing, and Treating Venereal Disease
4 Morale: Character Guidance and Moral Purification
Epilogue

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.9.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Asia Pacific Modern
• Reihe/Serie: Asia Pacific Modern
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: America • Asia Pacific region • Class • Cold War • Cultural History • Decolonization • Gender • intimacy • Japan • Japanese Empire • occupation of japan • post war empire building • Postwar Japan • Prostitution • Race • Regulations • Second World War • self imagery • Sexual Encounters • Sexuality • Sex Work • Social History • united states imperialism • us japanese relations • Venereal Disease
• ISBN-10: 0-520-96869-7 / 0520968697
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-96869-1 / 9780520968691