Title Sanitized sex : regulating prostitution, venereal disease, and intimacy in occupied Japan, 1945-1952 / Robert Kramm

Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 299 pages) Series Asia Pacific Modern ; 15 Asia Pacific modern ; 15. Contents Comforting the occupiers: prostitution as administrative practice in Japan at the end of World War II -- Security: policing prostitution and venereal disease in occupied Japan -- Health: preventing, diagnosing and treating venereal disease -- Morale: character guidance and moral purification 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 the occupation politics and postwar state- and empire-building, U.S.-Japan relations, and American and Japanese self-imagery. An analysis of the "sanitization of sex" uncovers new spatial formations in the postwar period. 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. An analysis of the sanitization of sex thus sheds 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."--Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes In English Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 03, 2017) Subject Prostitutes -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Japan -- History -- 20th century Sexually transmitted diseases -- Japan -- Prevention -- History -- 20th century Sex industry -- Japan -- History -- 20th century Soldiers -- Sexual behavior -- Japan Soldiers -- Sexual behavior -- United States BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. HISTORY -- Asia -- General. Prostitutes -- Legal status, laws, etc. Sex industry Sexually transmitted diseases -- Prevention Social aspects Soldiers -- Sexual behavior SUBJECT Japan -- History -- Allied occupation, 1945-1952 -- Social aspects Subject Japan United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2017016883 ISBN 9780520968691 0520968697

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