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Over there : living with the U.S. military empire from World War Two to the present / edited by Maria Hohn and Seungsook Moon.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Military bases, American--Foreign countries--History--20th century.
- Military bases, American.
- Military bases, American--Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (477 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Essays explore the social impact of America s global network of military bases by examining interactions between U.S. soldiers and members of host communities in South Korea, Japan/Okinawa, and West Germany.
- Contents:
- Introduction: the politics of gender, sexuality, race, and class in the U.S. military empire / Maria Hohn and Seungsook Moon
- Regulating desire, managing the empire: U.S. military prostitution in South Korea, 1945-1970 / Seungsook Moon
- "Pan-Pan girls" performing and resisting neocolonialism(s) in the Pacific Theater: U.S. military prostitution in occupied Japan, 1945-1952 / Michiko Takeuchi
- "You can't pin sergeant's stripes on an archangel" : soldiering, sexuality, and U.S. Army policies in Germany / Maria H[MARC+95]hn
- U.S. military families abroad in the post-Cold War era and the "new global posture" / Donna Alvah
- Crossfire couples : marginality and agency among Okinawan women in relationships with U.S. military men / Chris Ames
- Hidden soldiers : working for the "national defense" / Robin Riley
- In the U.S. army but not quite of it : contesting the imperial power in a discourse of KATUSAs / Seungsook Moon
- "The American soldier dances, the German soldier marches" : the transformation of Germans' views on GIs, masculinity, and militarism / Maria Hohn
- In the middle of the road I stand transfixed / Christopher Nelson
- The racial crisis of 1970-1971 in the U.S. military : finding solutions in West Germany and South Korea / Maria Hohn
- Camptown prostitution and the imperial sofa : abuse and violence against transnational Camptown women in South Korea / Seungsook Moon
- Abu Ghraib : a predictable tragedy? / Jeff Bennett
- Conclusion: the empire at the crossroad? / Maria Hohn and Seungsook Moon.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613251954
- 9781283251952
- 1283251957
- 9780822393283
- 082239328X
- OCLC:
- 845252979
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