Gendering modern Japanese history
by Molony, Barbara, Uno, Kathleen S.
fromHarvard East Asian Monographs
In the past quarter-century, gender has emerged as a lively area of inquiry for historians and other scholars. This text looks at the issue in the context of modern Japanese history, considering topics such as sexuality, gender prescriptions and same-sex and heterosexual relatio…
While a slender body is a prerequisite for beauty today, plump women were considered ideal in Tang Dynasty China and Heian-period Japan. Starting around the Southern Song period in China, bound feet symbolized the attractiveness of women. But in Japan, shaved eyebrows and blacke…
While a slender body is a prerequisite for beauty today, plump women were considered ideal in Tang Dynasty China and Heian-period Japan. Starting around the Southern Song period in China, bound feet symbolized the attractiveness of women. But in Japan, shaved eyebrows and blacke…
Exploring sexwork and trafficking in a globalized culture and economy, this book offers a critique of increasingly stringent policing worldwide following the UN protocol against trafficking in persons. It highlights the grey area between sex work and trafficking and draws on the…
Migration, sexwork and trafficking : 25 years from Thailand to Japan -- Modernisation, gender and globalisation : situating the migrations of thai sexworkers -- Before becoming sex workers -- Becoming sex workers, being sex workers -- Becoming ex-sexworkers.
"This study of sexwork and trafficking in the globalized culture and economy offers a critique of increasingly stringent policing worldwide following the UN protocol against trafficking in persons. Using original data gathered through participatory action research in Thailand an…
This study of sexwork and trafficking in the globalized culture and economy offers a critique of increasingly stringent policing worldwide following the UN protocol against trafficking in persons. Using original data gathered through participatory action research in Thailand and…
"This study of sexwork and trafficking in the globalized culture and economy offers a critique of increasingly stringent policing worldwide following the UN protocol against trafficking in persons. Using original data gathered through participatory action research in Thailand an…
