ISBN:
9781848932012
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (194 p)
Series Statement:
Perspectives in Economic and Social HIST
Parallel Title:
Print version Sex in Japan's Globalization, 1870-1930 : Prostitutes, Emigration and Nation-Building
DDC:
306.7420952
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Note on Japanesse Names; Introduction: In the Beginning was the Prostitute; 1 Another Japan: Sex and Women's Work; 2 Creating the Archive: The Power of the Pen; 3 Sexuality and Class: Prostitution and the Japanese Woman's Christian Temperance Union; 4 Sex as Progress: Fukuzawa Yukichi on Trade and Overseas Prostitution; 5 Disciplining Globalizing: The Colonial Singapore Example; Conclusion: Globalization and the Poor; Notes; Works Cited; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
