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

    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