Imagining Prostitution in Modern Japan, 18501913

Informationen zum Autor Ann Marie Davis is assistant professor of Japanese studies at The Ohio State University. Klappentext This cultural history examines representations of pleasure work during Japan’s transformation into a modern nation-state. It traces the figure of the prostitute in the context of Japanese nation- and empire-building immediately before and during the Meiji era. Zusammenfassung This cultural history examines representations of pleasure work during Japan’s transformation into a modern nation-state. It traces the figure of the prostitute in the context of Japanese nation- and empire-building immediately before and during the Meiji era. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: Camouflaging Chaos with Pleasure: Images of the Yokohama Pleasure Zone Chapter Three: Counting Bodies: Enumerating Venereal Disease and the Medically Licensed Prostitute Chapter Four: Freedom, People's Rights, and the Early Abolition Movement: Contesting Modernity, Enlightenment, and Power Chapter Five: Writing A Prostitute's Tale by Wada Yoshiko Chapter Six: Epilogue

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Ann Marie Davis, Ann Marie L. Davis
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.03.2019
• EAN: 9781498542142
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-4214-2
• Seiten: 248
• Serien: New Studies in Modern Japan; New Studies in Modern Japan
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Regional- und Ländergeschichte; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; Japan, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, Asian History