Sanitized Sex: Regulating Prostitution, Venereal Disease, And Intimacy In Occupied Japan, 1945-1952 (asia Pacific Modern)
by Robert Kramm /
2017 / English / PDF, EPUB
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Sanitized Sex
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,
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
Sanitized Sex offers a reading of the
intimacies of empires—defeated and victorious.
offers a reading of the
intimacies of empires—defeated and victorious.