{"product_id":"healing-labor-gabriele-koch-9781503610576","title":"Healing Labor: Japanese Sex Work in the Gendered Economy","description":"\u003cp\u003eContemporary Japan is home to one of the world's largest and most diversified markets for sex. Widely understood to be socially necessary, the sex industry operates and recruits openly, staffed by a diverse group of women who are attracted by its high pay and the promise of autonomy--but whose work remains stigmatized and unmentionable. Based on fieldwork with adult Japanese women in Tokyo's sex industry, \u003ci\u003eHealing Labor\u003c\/i\u003e explores the relationship between how sex workers think about what sex is and what it does and the political-economic roles and possibilities that they imagine for themselves. Gabriele Koch reveals how Japanese sex workers regard sex as a deeply feminized care--a healing labor--that is both necessary and significant for the well-being and productivity of men. In this nuanced ethnography that approaches sex as a social practice with political and economic effects, Koch compellingly illustrates the linkages between women's work, sex, and the gendered economy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gabriele Koch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1503610578\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781503610576\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/18\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.90d","brand":"Gabriele Koch","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43935274729727,"sku":"9781503610576","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_92b67f9a-c870-4e45-ad55-4dda13c375f1.jpg?v=1681418877","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/healing-labor-gabriele-koch-9781503610576","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}