ISBN:
0822348276
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0822348187
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9780822348276
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9780822348184
Language:
English
Pages:
XVIII, 453 S.
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Ill., Kt.
DDC:
355.7
Keywords:
Military bases, American History 20th century
;
Military bases, American Social aspects
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Sammlung von Beiträgen
;
Historische Darstellung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
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USA
;
Militärstützpunkt
;
Südkorea
;
Japan
;
Deutschland
;
Sozialgeschichte
Abstract:
Introduction: the politics of gender, sexuality, race, and class in the U.S. military empire / Maria Höhn and Seungsook Moon -- Regulating desire, managing the empire: U.S. military prostitution in South Korea, 1945-1970 / Seungsook Moon -- "Pan-Pan girls" performing and resisting neocolonialism(s) in the Pacific Theater: U.S. military prostitution in occupied Japan, 1945-1952 / Michiko Takeuchi -- "You can't pin sergeant's stripes on an archangel" : soldiering, sexuality, and U.S. Army policies in Germany / Maria H[MARC+95]hn -- U.S. military families abroad in the post-Cold War era and the "new global posture" / Donna Alvah -- Crossfire couples : marginality and agency among Okinawan women in relationships with U.S. military men / Chris Ames -- Hidden soldiers : working for the "national defense" / Robin Riley -- In the U.S. army but not quite of it : contesting the imperial power in a discourse of KATUSAs / Seungsook Moon -- "The American soldier dances, the German soldier marches" : the transformation of Germans' views on GIs, masculinity, and militarism / Maria Höhn -- In the middle of the road I stand transfixed / Christopher Nelson -- The racial crisis of 1970-1971 in the U.S. military : finding solutions in West Germany and South Korea / Maria Höhn -- Camptown prostitution and the imperial sofa : abuse and violence against transnational Camptown women in South Korea / Seungsook Moon -- Abu Ghraib : a predictable tragedy? / Jeff Bennett -- Conclusion: the empire at the crossroad? / Maria Höhn and Seungsook Moon
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Introduction: the politics of gender, sexuality, race, and class in the U.S. military empire
,
Regulating desire, managing the empire: U.S. military prostitution in South Korea, 1945-1970
,
"Pan-Pan girls" performing and resisting neocolonialism(s) in the Pacific Theater: U.S. military prostitution in occupied Japan, 1945-1952
,
"You can't pin sergeant's stripes on an archangel" : soldiering, sexuality, and U.S. Army policies in Germany
,
U.S. military families abroad in the post-Cold War era and the "new global posture"
,
Crossfire couples : marginality and agency among Okinawan women in relationships with U.S. military men
,
Hidden soldiers : working for the "national defense"
,
In the U.S. army but not quite of it : contesting the imperial power in a discourse of KATUSAs
,
"The American soldier dances, the German soldier marches" : the transformation of Germans' views on GIs, masculinity, and militarism
,
In the middle of the road I stand transfixed
,
The racial crisis of 1970-1971 in the U.S. military : finding solutions in West Germany and South Korea
,
Camptown prostitution and the imperial sofa : abuse and violence against transnational Camptown women in South Korea
,
Abu Ghraib : a predictable tragedy?
,
Conclusion: the empire at the crossroad?
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