Sex in Japan's Globalization, 1870-1930: Prostitutes, Emigration and Nation-Buil [Hardcover]

Based on archival research undertaken in Japan, Britain and the United States, Mihalopoulos offers a new perspective on the relations between gender hierarchies and the political economy in a newly modernized Japan.Based on archival research undertaken in Japan, Britain and the United States, Mihalopoulos offers a new perspective on the relations between gender hierarchies and the political economy in a newly modernized Japan.Chapter 1 Introduction: In the Beginning was the Prostitute; Chapter 1a Another Japan: Sex and Women's Work; Chapter 2 Creating the Archive: The Power of the Pen; Chapter 3 Sexuality and Class: Prostitution and the Japanese Woman's Christian Temperance Union; Chapter 4 Sex as Progress: Fukuzawa Yukichi on Trade and Overseas Prostitution; Chapter 5 Disciplining Globalizing: The Colonial Singapore Example; Chapter 7 Conclusion: Globalization and the Poor;US? Taylor & Francis 2011