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Intimacy across the fencelines : sex, marriage, and the U.S. military in Okinawa / Rebecca Forgash.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Forgash, Rebecca, 1970- author.
- Series:
- Cornell scholarship online.
- Cornell scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Military bases, American--Social aspects--Japan--Okinawa-ken.
- Military bases, American.
- Soldiers--Sexual behavior--United States.
- Soldiers.
- Soldiers--Sexual behavior--Japan--Okinawa-ken.
- Intercountry marriage--Japan--Okinawa-ken.
- Intercountry marriage.
- Interracial marriage--Japan--Okinawa-ken.
- Interracial marriage.
- United States--Armed Forces--Japan--Okinawa-ken.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- Examining intimacy in the form of sexual encounters, dating, marriage, and family that involve US service members and local residents, Forgash analyses stories of individual US service members and their Okinawan spouses and family members against the backdrop of Okinawan history, political and economic entanglements with Japan and the United States, and a longstanding anti-base movement. The narratives highlight the simultaneously repressive and creative power of military 'fencelines', sites of symbolic negotiation and struggle involving gender, race, and class that divide the social landscape in communities that host US bases. This work anchors the global US military complex and US-Japan security alliance in intimate everyday experiences and emotions, illuminating important aspects of the lived experiences of war and imperialism.
- Contents:
- International marriage in Japan's periphery
- Race, memory and military men's sexuality
- Living respectably : Okinawan women negotiating class
- The Marine Corps marriage package
- Creating family and community across military fencelines.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2020.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 16, 2020).
- ISBN:
- 9781501750427
- 1501750429
- OCLC:
- 1124776207
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