Occupying power sex workers and servicemen in postwar Japan
by
 
Kovner, Sarah (Sarah C.), 1973-

Title
: 
Occupying power sex workers and servicemen in postwar Japan

Author
: 
Kovner, Sarah (Sarah C.), 1973-

Personal Author
: 
Kovner, Sarah (Sarah C.), 1973-

Publication Information
: 
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2012.

Physical Description
: 
xi, 226 p. : map.

Series
: 
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
 
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.

Contents
: 
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 prostitution 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.

Subject Term
: 
Prostitution -- Japan -- History -- 20th century.
 
Sex-oriented businesses -- Japan -- History -- 20th century.
 
Prostitutes -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Japan -- History -- 20th century.

Geographic Term
: 
Japan -- History -- Allied occupation, 1945-1952.

Genre
: 
Electronic books.

Added Corporate Author
: 
ProQuest (Firm)

Electronic Access
: 
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