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Occupying Power: Sex Workers and Servicemen in Postwar Japan

Sarah Kovner

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Ordinary women helped restart Japan's postwar recovery by selling sex to Allied servicemen, but they were sacrificed as symbols of national shame by a country that has yet to recover full sovereignty.

Categories:

Society, Politics & Philosophy - Anthropology

Year:

2012

Publisher:

Stanford University Press

Language:

english

Pages:

240

ISBN 10:

0804783462

ISBN 13:

9780804783460

File:

PDF, 4.32 MB

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english, 2012

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