Imagining Prostitution in Modern Japan, 18501913

Informationen zum Autor By Ann Marie L. Davis 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

Product details

• Authors: Ann Marie Davis, Ann Marie L. Davis
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2019
• EAN: 9781498542142
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-4214-2
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: New Studies in Modern Japan; New Studies in Modern Japan
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous