Comfort Women and Post-Occupation Corporate Japan

Sommario

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

Info autore

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

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Norma Caroline, Caroline Norma
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 31.10.2018
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Economia > Singoli rami economici, branche
• EAN: 9780815394693
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-9469-3
• Numero di pagine: 182
• Serie: ASAA Women in Asia Series; ASAA Women in Asia Series
• Categorie: 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, Sex work regulation, postwar Japanese society, gendered labour relations, workplace sexual exploitation, corporate masculinity studies, patriarchal state policies, gender inequality in economic development