Sex in Japan's Globalization, 1870-1930: Prostitutes, Emigration and Nation-Building / Edition 1

by Bill Mihalopoulos

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781848932012
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/01/2011
Series:	Perspectives in Economic and Social History , #13
Pages:	194
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Bill Mihalopoulos

Table of Contents

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;