Healing Labor - Japanese Sex Work in the Gendered Economy

Healing Labor is an ethnography of how adult Japanese women working in Tokyo's sex industry experience and understand the contradictions that define their work and its social value.

List of contents

Introduction

1. Sex in Gray Spaces

2. First-Timers Welcome!

3. Stigma and the Moral Economy

4. Healing Customers

5. Victims All

6. Risk and Rights

Epilogue

About the author

Gabriele Koch is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Yale-NUS College.

Summary

Healing Labor is an ethnography of how adult Japanese women working in Tokyo's sex industry experience and understand the contradictions that define their work and its social value.

Product details

• Authors: Gabriele Koch
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781503611344
• ISBN: 978-1-5036-1134-4
• No. of pages: 277
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Japan, Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie