Sanitized Sex : Regulating Prostitution, Venereal Disease, and Intimacy in Occupied Japan, 1945-1952 / Robert Kramm.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kramm, Robert, author.

Series:

Asia Pacific modern ; 15.

Asia Pacific Modern ; 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prostitutes--Legal status, laws, etc--Japan--History--20th century.

Prostitutes.

Sexually transmitted diseases--Japan--Prevention--History--20th century.

Sexually transmitted diseases.

Japan--History--Allied occupation, 1945-1952--Social aspects.

Japan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (315 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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, Sanitized Sex offers a reading of the intimacies of empires-defeated and victorious.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Comforting the Occupiers. Prostitution as Administrative Practice in Japan at the End of World War II

2. Security. Policing Prostitution and Venereal Disease in Occupied Japan

3. Health. Preventing, Diagnosing, and Treating Venereal Disease

4. Morale. Character Guidance and Moral Purifi cation

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

9780520968691

0520968697

OCLC:

981948434