Imagining Prostitution in Modern Japan, 18501913

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

By Ann Marie L. Davis

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Davis Ann Marie L. Davis, Ann Marie L. Davis
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781498542166
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-4216-6
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Japan, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, Asian History