Comfort Women and Post-Occupation Corporate Japan

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, when there was instituted a "sexual contract" which provided male salarymen whose work was arduous, underpaid and subject to military-like organisation with easy access to women's bodies, through workplace getaway trips to hot springs resorts, hostess bars, and prostitution tourism to South Korea, as sexual inducement to acquiesce to their own exploitation. Japan's economic growth, the book thereby contends, came at the price not just of environmental and labour degradation, but also gender inequality.

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: Caroline Norma, Norma Caroline
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 30.06.2020
• Categoria: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva
• EAN: 9780367585235
• ISBN: 978-0-367-58523-5
• Numero di pagine: 182
• Serie: ASAA Women in Asia Series
• Categorie: Japan, Sociology, 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, Sociology: sexual relations, Gender studies: women, Sex and sexuality, social aspects, Gender studies: women and girls, 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