Ann Marie L. Davis

Imagining Prostitution in Modern Japan, 1850-1913

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• New Studies in Modern Japan
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 520g
• ISBN-13: 9781498542142
• ISBN-10: 149854214X
• Artikelnr.: 54806954

Autorenporträt

Ann Marie Davis is assistant professor of Japanese studies at The Ohio State University.

Inhaltsangabe

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