TY - BOOK ID - 138146332 TI - Sanitized Sex : Regulating Prostitution, Venereal Disease, and Intimacy in Occupied Japan, 1945-1952 PY - 2017 SN - 0520968697 PB - Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, DB - UniCat KW - Prostitutes KW - Sexually transmitted diseases KW - Legal status, laws, etc. KW - History KW - Prevention KW - History KW - Japan KW - History KW - Social aspects. KW - america. KW - asia pacific region. KW - class. KW - cold war. KW - cultural history. KW - decolonization. KW - gender. KW - intimacy. KW - japan. KW - japanese empire. KW - occupation of japan. KW - post war empire building. KW - postwar japan. KW - prostitution. KW - race. KW - regulations. KW - second world war. KW - self imagery. KW - sex work. KW - sexual encounters. KW - sexuality. KW - social history. KW - united states imperialism. KW - us japanese relations. KW - venereal disease. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:138146332 AB - Sanitized Sex analyzes the development of new forms of regulation concerning prostitution, venereal disease, and intimacy during the American occupation of Japan after the Second World War, focusing on the period between 1945 and 1952. It contributes to the cultural and social history of the occupation of Japan by investigating the intersections of ordering principles like race, class, gender, and sexuality. It also reveals how sex and its regulation were not marginal but key issues in postwar empire-building, U.S.-Japanese relations, and American and Japanese self-imagery. The regulation of sexual encounters between occupiers and occupied was closely linked to the disintegration of the Japanese empire and the rise of U.S. hegemony in the Asia-Pacific region during the Cold War era. Shedding new light on the configuration of postwar Japan, the process of decolonization, the postcolonial formation of the Asia-Pacific region, and the particularities of postwar U.S. imperialism, Sanitized Sex offers a reading of the intimacies of empires-defeated and victorious. ER -