Occupying Power: Sex Workers and Servicemen in Postwar Japan by Kovner, Sarah

Occupying Power: Sex Workers and Servicemen in Postwar Japan (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780804776912)

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Occupying Power: Sex Workers and Servicemen in Postwar Japan by Kovner, Sarah

Occupying Power: Sex Workers and Servicemen in Postwar Japan

$110.00
Occupying Power: Sex Workers and Servicemen in Postwar Japan by Kovner, Sarah

Occupying Power: Sex Workers and Servicemen in Postwar Japan

$110.00
Format: Hardcover
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Ordinary women helped restart Japan's postwar recovery by selling sex to Allied servicemen, but they were sacrificed as symbols of national shame by a country that has yet to recover full sovereignty.

Author: Sarah Kovner
ISBN-10: 0804776911
ISBN-13: 9780804776912
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/08/2012
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 08/01/2012
By Sarah Kovner
By Sarah Kovner
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Sarah Kovner is Assistant Professor of History and Asian Studies at the University of Florida.

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