Occupying power sex workers and servicemen in postwar Japan /

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

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Main Author:	Kovner, Sarah 1973-
Corporate Author:	ProQuest (Firm)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2012.
Series:	Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
Subjects:	Prostitution > Japan > History > 20th century. Sex-oriented businesses > Japan > History > 20th century. Prostitutes > Legal status, laws, etc. > Japan > History > 20th century. Japan > History > Allied occupation, 1945-1952. Electronic books.

Table of 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.