Book ID: CBB405362538

Sanitized Sex: Regulating Prostitution, Venereal Disease, and Intimacy in Occupied Japan, 1945-1952 (2017)

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Robert Kramm (Author)


University of California Press


Publication Date: 2017
Physical Details: 320 pages
Language: English

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.

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Review Sabine Frühstück (2019) Review of "Sanitized Sex: Regulating Prostitution, Venereal Disease, and Intimacy in Occupied Japan, 1945-1952". American Historical Review (pp. 643-644). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Carlo Gelmetti
Molosiwa, Phuthego Phuthego
Luca Muscardin
Franco Rongioletti
Mario Pippione
Petrungaro, Stefano
Concepts
Sexually transmitted diseases
Sexual hygiene
Prostitution
Public health
Medicine
Skin diseases
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, early
21st century
18th century
Early modern
Places
Italy
United States
Spain
Botswana
Yugoslavia
Peru
Institutions
United States. Public Health Service
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