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

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 365g
• ISBN-13: 9781498542166
• ISBN-10: 1498542166
• Artikelnr.: 60587746

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