Intimacy across the Fencelines: sex, marriage, and the U.S. Military in Okinawa

Intimacy Across the Fencelines examines intimacy in the form of sexual encounters, dating, marriage, and family—that involve US service members and local residents. Rebecca Forgash analyzes the stories of individual US service members and their Okinawan spouses and family members against the backdro...

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Main Author: Forgash, Rebecca 1970- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, New York ; London Cornell University Press 2020
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Summary:Intimacy Across the Fencelines examines intimacy in the form of sexual encounters, dating, marriage, and family—that involve US service members and local residents. Rebecca Forgash analyzes the stories of individual US service members and their Okinawan spouses and family members against the backdrop of Okinawan history, political and economic entanglements with Japan and the United States, and a longstanding anti-base movement. The narratives highlight the simultaneously repressive and creative power of military "fencelines," sites of symbolic negotiation and struggle involving gender, race, and class that divide the social landscape in communities that host US bases.Intimacy Across the Fencelines anchors the global US military complex and US-Japan security alliance in intimate everyday experiences and emotions, illuminating important aspects of the lived experiences of war and imperialism
Physical Description:1 Online-Resource (xvi, 219 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9781501750427
9781501750410
DOI:10.1515/9781501750427