1st Edition

Sex in Japan's Globalization, 1870–1930 Prostitutes, Emigration and Nation-Building

By Bill Mihalopoulos Copyright 2011
208 Pages
by Routledge

194 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

Based on archival research undertaken in Japan, Britain and the United States, Mihalopoulos offers a new perspective on the relations between gender hierarchies and the political economy in a newly modernized Japan.

Chapter 1 Introduction: In the Beginning was the Prostitute; Chapter 1a Another Japan: Sex and Women's Work; Chapter 2 Creating the Archive: The Power of the Pen; Chapter 3 Sexuality and Class: Prostitution and the Japanese Woman's Christian Temperance Union; Chapter 4 Sex as Progress: Fukuzawa Yukichi on Trade and Overseas Prostitution; Chapter 5 Disciplining Globalizing: The Colonial Singapore Example; Chapter 7 Conclusion: Globalization and the Poor;

Biography

Bill Mihalopoulos