Love, Sex, and Democracy in Japan during the American Occupation [electronic resource] /
McLelland, M.author.
This is the first book in English to examine, through material in the popular press, the radical changes that took place in Japanese ideas about sex, romance and male-female relations in the wake of Japan's defeat and occupation by Allied forces at the end of the Second World War.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; A Note on Japanese Names and Sources; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Love, Sex, and Marriage on the Road to War; 2 Sex and Censorship during the Occupation; 3 Sexual Liberation; 4 The Kiss Debate; 5 The New Couple; 6 Curiosity Hunting; Afterword: Postwar Legacies; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This is the first book in English to examine, through material in the popular press, the radical changes that took place in Japanese ideas about sex, romance and male-female relations in the wake of Japan's defeat and occupation by Allied forces at the end of the Second World War.
Ethnology-Asia.
Asia-Politics and government.
Political science.
Cultural studies.
Sociology.
Cultural policy.
Asian Culture.
Asian Politics.
Political Science.
Cultural Studies.
Sociology, general.
Cultural Policy and Politics.