Sanitized sex : regulating prostitution, venereal disease, and intimacy in occupied Japan, 1945-1952 / Robert Kramm.
Material type: TextSeries: Asia Pacific modern ; 15.Publisher: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 299 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780520968691
- 0520968697
- Prostitutes -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Japan -- History -- 20th century
- Japan -- History -- Allied occupation, 1945-1952 -- Social aspects
- Sexually transmitted diseases -- Japan -- Prevention -- History -- 20th century
- Sex-oriented businesses -- Japan -- History -- 20th century
- Soldiers -- Sexual behavior -- Japan
- Soldiers -- Sexual behavior -- United States
- Japon -- Histoire -- 1945-1952 (Occupation alliée) -- Aspect social
- Infections transmissibles sexuellement -- Japon -- Prévention -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Industrie pornographique -- Japon -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General
- HISTORY -- Asia -- General
- Prostitutes -- Legal status, laws, etc
- Sex-oriented businesses
- Sexually transmitted diseases -- Prevention
- Social aspects
- Soldiers -- Sexual behavior
- Japan
- United States
- Allied Occupation of Japan (Japan : 1945-1952)
- 1900-1999
- 363.4/409520904 23
- HQ247.A5 K73 2017
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Comforting the occupiers: prostitution as administrative practice in Japan at the end of World War II -- Security: policing prostitution and venereal disease in occupied Japan -- Health: preventing, diagnosing and treating venereal disease -- Morale: character guidance and moral purification.
"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 the occupation politics and postwar state- and empire-building, U.S.-Japan relations, and American and Japanese self-imagery. An analysis of the "sanitization of sex" uncovers new spatial formations in the postwar period. 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. An analysis of the sanitization of sex thus sheds 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."--Provided by publisher.
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 03, 2017).
In English.
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