Occupying power
Subtitle: sex workers and servicemen in postwar Japan
By: Sarah Kovner
Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University; Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780804776912
Subjects: Prostitution; History; Sex-oriented businesses; Legal status, laws; Prostitutes
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : a special business; title: "To transship them to some suitable island" : making policy in the midst of chaos; title: Violence, commerce, marriage; title: When flesh glittered : selling sex in Sasebo and Tokyo; title: Legislating women : the push for a prostitution prevention law; title: The high politics of base pleasures : regulating morality for the postwar era; title: The presence of the past : controversies over sex work since 1956; title: Conclusion : beyond victimhood.