Healing labor: Japanese sex work in the gendered economy
"Contemporary 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...
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| Summary: | "Contemporary 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, Healing Labor 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." -- |
| Item Description: | Examines how adult Japanese women working in Tokyo's sex industry experience and understand contradictions surrounding the social and economic value of their work. In highlighting these disjunctions, Koch challenges the conceptual and gendered separation of sex from economic activity in order to illustrate both the mutual constitution of economic and erotic life as well as men's reliance on women's economic labor more broadly |
| Physical Description: | xv, 230 pages illustrations 23 cm |
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| spelling | Koch, Gabriele 1984- Verfasser (DE-588)1205405968 aut Healing labor Japanese sex work in the gendered economy Gabriele Koch Stanford, California Stanford University Press 2020 xv, 230 pages illustrations 23 cm txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Examines how adult Japanese women working in Tokyo's sex industry experience and understand contradictions surrounding the social and economic value of their work. In highlighting these disjunctions, Koch challenges the conceptual and gendered separation of sex from economic activity in order to illustrate both the mutual constitution of economic and erotic life as well as men's reliance on women's economic labor more broadly Sex in gray spaces -- First-timers welcome! -- Stigma and the moral economy -- Healing customers -- Victims all -- Risk and rights "Contemporary 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, Healing Labor 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." -- Prostitutes / Japan / Tokyo Sex workers / Japan / Tokyo Prostitution / Japan / Tokyo Sex-oriented businesses / Japan / Tokyo Women / Employment / Japan / Tokyo SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General bisacsh Prostitutes fast Prostitution fast Sex-oriented businesses fast Sex workers fast Women / Employment fast Kulturanthropologie gnd Wirtschaftsethnologie gnd Unterhaltungsindustrie gnd Sexindustrie gnd Prostitution gnd Frauenarbeit gnd Care-Arbeit gnd Stigmatisierung gnd Frauenhandel gnd Arbeitsbedingungen gnd Lebensbedingungen gnd Prostituierte gnd Japan / Tokyo fast Japan gnd Tokio gnd |
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