Comfort Women and Post-Occupation Corporate Japan

List of contents

Dedication Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: Corporate subcontracting of sexual and social imperatives Chapter 2: Finding the state in the sex industry of the high growth era Chapter 3: The 1950s new deal of the post-occupation patriarchal state Chapter 4: Ian Ryokou workplace getaway trips Chapter 5: Hostess bars and corporate entertaining in the 1960s Chapter 6: Corporate kisaeng prostitution tourism Conclusion: Prostitution as an institution of the peacetime state

About the author

Caroline Norma is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at RMIT University, Melbourne.

Summary

This book provides an overview of the Japanese sex industry in the years of Japan’s postwar economic boom. It argues that the origins of gender inequality in contemporary Japan resulted from the policies put in place during this period.

Product details

• Authors: Caroline Norma, Norma Caroline
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9780815394693
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-9469-3
• No. of pages: 182
• Series: ASAA Women in Asia Series; ASAA Women in Asia Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; Japan, Hospitality industry, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Hospitality and service industries, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General