Occupying power : sex workers and servicemen in postwar Japan / Sarah Kovner.

Collection type Library
Author Kovner, Sarah (Sarah C.), 1973-, author.;
Call Number 306.740952 K88o
Document type Monograph
Year [c2012]
Pagination xi, 226 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Publisher Stanford University Press,
Note Formerly CIP. Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-218) and index.
Place made Stanford, California :
Abstract

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 prostitu tion 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.

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