Sex in Japan''s Globalization, 18701930 - Prostitutes, Emigration and Nation-Building

Based on archival research undertaken in Japan, Britain and the United States, Mihalopoulos offers a new perspective on the relations between gender hierarchies and the political economy in a newly modernized Japan.

List of contents

Chapter 1 Introduction: In the Beginning was the Prostitute; Chapter 1a Another Japan: Sex and Women's Work; Chapter 2 Creating the Archive: The Power of the Pen; Chapter 3 Sexuality and Class: Prostitution and the Japanese Woman's Christian Temperance Union; Chapter 4 Sex as Progress: Fukuzawa Yukichi on Trade and Overseas Prostitution; Chapter 5 Disciplining Globalizing: The Colonial Singapore Example; Chapter 7 Conclusion: Globalization and the Poor;

About the author

Bill Mihalopoulos

Product details

• Authors: Bill Mihalopoulos, Mihalopoulos Bill
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.01.2016
• EAN: 9781138661646
• ISBN: 978-1-138-66164-6
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Perspectives in Economic and Social History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; Japan, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, HISTORY / Women, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Social and cultural history, Asian History, Gender studies: women, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Gender studies: women and girls, c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), C 1900 - C 1914, c 1900 to c 1909, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period)