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Love, sex, and democracy in Japan during the American Occupation / Mark McLelland.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McLelland, Mark J., 1966-2020.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex--Japan--History--20th century--Sources.
- Sex.
- Sex customs--Japan--History--20th century--Sources.
- Sex customs.
- Sex role--Japan--History--20th century--Sources.
- Sex role.
- Social conditions.
- Social change.
- History.
- Japan.
- Social change--Japan--History--20th century--Sources.
- Japan--Social conditions--20th century--Sources.
- Japan--History--Allied occupation, 1945-1952.
- Genre:
- Sources.
- Physical Description:
- 240 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
- Summary:
- "Love, Sex, and Democracy in Japan during the American Occupati"on is the first book in English to examine 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. It is based on extensive archival research into popular magazines and newspapers as well as a range of sexological publications including sex guides, reports and manuals published during the Occupation and immediately after. Although the main focus of the book is on heterosexual discourse and practice, the postwar period also saw the rapid development of a range of sexual minority subcultures: both male and female homosexuality are discussed as are a range of heterosexual "perversions," including both male and female cross-dressing and sado-masochism, that were sources of fascination in the early postwar years. The book examines all these in relation to ideas of democracy brought and embodied by the Occupation, adding an important dimension to studies of Japan's sexual customs during the Occupation period.
- Contents:
- Love, sex and marriage on the road to war
- Sex and censorship during the Occupation
- Sexual liberation
- The kiss debate
- The new couple
- Curiosity hunting
- Afterword: Postwar legacies.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780230120594
- 0230120598
- OCLC:
- 744287367
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