This book provides an overview of the Japanese sex industry in the years of Japan's postwar economic boom. It argues that the origins of gender inequality in contemporary Japan resulted from the policies put in place during this period, when there was instituted a "sexual contract "wh...

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1. Verfasser:	Norma, Caroline (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	London Routledge 2019
Schriftenreihe:	Asian Studies Association of Australia women in Asia series ASAA women in Asia series 52
Schlagworte:	Prostitution / Japan Comfort women / Japan Corporate culture / Japan Male white collar workers / Japan Sex role / Japan
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Zusammenfassung:	This book provides an overview of the Japanese sex industry in the years of Japan's postwar economic boom. It argues that the origins of gender inequality in contemporary Japan resulted from the policies put in place during this period, when there was instituted a "sexual contract "which provided male salarymen whose work was arduous, underpaid and subject to military-like organisation with easy access to women's bodies, through workplace getaway trips to hot springs resorts, hostess bars, and prostitution tourism to South Korea, as sexual inducement to acquiesce to their own exploitation. Japan's economic growth, the book thereby contends, came at the price not just of environmental and labour degradation, but also gender inequality
Beschreibung:	1 online resource (x, 181 pages)
ISBN:	9781351185257 135118525X 1351185276 9781351185271 9781351185240 1351185241 9781351185264 1351185268