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positions (1997) 5 (1): 135–171.
Published: 01 February 1997
...Fujime Yuki Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 The licensed Prostitution System and the Prostitution Abolition Movement in Modern Japan Fujime Yuki Introduction The modern licensed prostitution system, a combination of compulsory...
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positions (1997) 5 (1): 171–219.
Published: 01 February 1997
...Song Youn-ok Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Japanese Colonial Rule and StatelManaged Prostitution: Korea’s Licensed Prostitutes Song Youn-ok Introduction Not long after Liberation, a Korean scholar reflected upon Japan’s colonial...
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positions (2016) 24 (4): 839–873.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Sidney Xu Lu This article examines campaigns aimed at abolishing Japanese overseas prostitution in Manchuria and North America during the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, focusing on the ideologies and practices of Japanese middle-class abolitionists. It argues that campaigns...
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positions (1999) 7 (1): 225–237.
Published: 01 February 1999
...Kamala Kempadoo Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Commentary Slavery or Work? Reconceptualizing Third World Prostitution Kamala Kempadoo Third World prostitution is often described as sexual slavery, as violence to women...
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positions (2010) 18 (2): 373–398.
Published: 01 May 2010
... as a historical representation of male prostitution culture was left out entirely. Through genealogical investigation, the article argues that tongzhi politics and subjectivity as articulated through Crystal Boys is founded upon the normative exclusion of the gendered prostitute subject...
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positions (2009) 17 (3): 655–682.
Published: 01 August 2009
... sexualities into working-class service labors, such as male/female prostitution, other sexualized service work, and military labor. South Korean military proletarian labor, reconstituted as a supraclass, ethnonational masculinity, functioned simultaneously as an intranational class surrogate labor...
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positions (2012) 20 (1): 389–415.
Published: 01 February 2012
... examine the spatial opposition between streets and interiors, and why Hùng focuses so strongly on abjection, silences, and failed articulation of desires. The figure of the poor, beautiful woman forced into prostitution to save her family is almost a cliché in Vietnamese fiction—and so is that of her poor...
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positions (2011) 19 (2): 525–549.
Published: 01 May 2011
... context. The ideological acts of the female protagonists, with their own depictions of risk perception and risk management, allow the characters' adaptation to the quicksand conditions of their fluctuating financial affairs. Issues on tourism, prostitution, labor flexibility, and the social practices...
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positions (2020) 28 (2): 363–387.
Published: 01 May 2020
... conventional portrayals of comfort women as erotic prostitutes. The image of comfort women as highly sexualized bodies has taken deep root in postwar Japanese popular culture, but the statue challenges this stereotyping and presents instead the pristine image of comfort women as innocent teenage victims...
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positions (1993) 1 (1): 103–130.
Published: 01 February 1993
... is a historian to understand her flat assertion that “the subaltern cannot speak Although a general discussion of all these questions would un- doubtedly be useful, I raise them here in the context of my own work on prostitution...
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positions (1997) 5 (1): v–xiv.
Published: 01 February 1997
... money does little to restore the honor of the former com- fort women and humiliates them once again as prostitutes, and suspects the sincerity of the Japanese government’s admission of wrongdoing. While the comfort women do agree...
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positions (1997) 5 (1): 51–72.
Published: 01 February 1997
... one possibly explain a project on such a scale? A number of feminist works have explained the military comfort women project as “forced prostitution” in terms of the preexisting Japanese prostitution system.*O A system of nationally...
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positions (1997) 5 (2): 439–465.
Published: 01 May 1997
...- gies of the international campaign, End Child Prostitution in Asian Tour- ism (ECPAT Spurred by my own location as an Asian American woman, I began to research ways in which the issue of the U.s.-Asia sex trade was being taken...
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positions (1998) 6 (3): 675–705.
Published: 01 August 1998
... Levine Nineteenth-century anxiety over sexually transmitted diseases was a pow- erful mix of moral and sanitary prejudice that routinely viewed promiscu- ity, and more especially prostitution, as the likeliest route of infection...
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positions (2010) 18 (2): 321–349.
Published: 01 May 2010
...- matic sexuality via figures of prostitutes and concubines, or prostitutes turned concubines, given that prostitute-­to-­concubine has been and con- tinues to be a trajectory for modern-­day “little wives” or secondary wives...
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positions (2006) 14 (2): 311–343.
Published: 01 May 2006
... in more than one of them), center primarily on female pro- tagonists dealing with experiences coded as specific to women, such as het- erosexual prostitution, and these experiences provide the basis upon which her critiques of modernity...
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positions (2011) 19 (2): 439–462.
Published: 01 May 2011
... the country most directly linked to this economy, and Fil- ipina entertainers there are commonly identified by the derogatory term Japayuki, which is understood as “sex workers,” “prostitutes,” and “putas” bound for Japan (see below...
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positions (2002) 10 (3): 575–630.
Published: 01 August 2002
... of contemporary Labrang, where even the prostitutes would not publicly bare Makley On the Edge of Respectability 577 their ankles, such images of nearly naked female bodies seemed to me strik- ingly obscene, yet they circulated among...
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positions (1996) 4 (2): 381–414.
Published: 01 May 1996
... affairs, divorce, date rape, love suicide, domestic violence, prostitution, and homosexuality, though the narratives are often coupled with discussions of women’s feminine nature, their psychology, their sexuality, and their social role.6...
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positions (2016) 24 (4): 723–726.
Published: 01 November 2016
.... And this leads readers to the final essay in this general issue, “The Shame of Empire: Japanese Overseas Prostitutes and Prostitution Abolition in Modern Japan, 1880s – 1927.” Sidney Xu Lu’s history of Japanese middle-­ class prostitution abolition...