...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...

... shaped Japan's domestic prostitution abolition movement. Copyright 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 overseas prostitutes prostitution abolition modern Japan Karayuki-san middle class Japanese Woman's Christian Temperance Union (JWCTU) Purity Society The Shame of Empire: Japanese...

.... 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...

... issue of class. As is often the case, we witness the question of class and women com- bined and subsumed under the name of nation. Fujime Yuki’s essay “The Licensed Prostitution System and the Prostitution Abolition Movement...

... purveying enlight- ened ideas and even collected twelve thousand signatures on a petition to the Government General demanding the abolition of prostitution.104 In Masan, where the antiprostitution movement had begun, English mission...

... abolition.”Ig She thus marks the difference between a movement that advocates the abolition of prostitution and one that is premised on understandings of prostitution as a form of sexual labor, highlighting the need to address issues...

... 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...

... A. 2006 . “The United States as Global Sheriff: Using Unilateral Sanctions to Combat Human Trafficking.” Michigan Journal of International Law 27 , no. 2 : 437 – 94 . ———. 2015 . “Giving as Governance: Philanthrocapitalism and Modern-Day Slavery Abolitionism.” UCLA Law Review 62...

... to Resolutely Oppose the Sex Industry and Suggestions for the Taipei City Government in the Aftermath of its Abolition of Licensed Prostitution in Gongchang yu jiquan yundong (Licensed Prostitutes and the Prostitute Rights Movement), ed...

... 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...

... to look at the Indian Ocean as an archive. The archeology and genealogy of Vergès Writing on Water 247 its texts will tell the story of pirates, sailors, slaves, prostitutes, merchants, traders, and interpreters...

... necessitated this denigration of Indian women in general was an imperialistic desire to demean the colonial subjects via a convoluted route of reasoning: “Officials in favor of abolition argued that such action was in fact consistent with upholding...

... of “l’homme qui travaille.” After the French Revolu- tion and the abolition of sumptuary laws — which had prescribed for “each class of society . . . its costume” (“one recognized by his dress the lord, the bourgeois, the artisan”) — “all became equal...

....26 Meanwhile, the working classes found themselves filling the bottom rungs of the labor market-as construction workers, fishermen, day labor- ers, frontier policemen, prostitutes, and servants- often without the bene...

.... 1). The group’s inaugural platform combined classic liberal feminist demands such as “the abolition of all social and legal discriminations against women,” “the eradication of feudal customs and superstitions,” and “the ban...

.... women of their citizenship if they married an “alien ineligible for citizenship.”6 Sexuality was also regulated. A series of bans on “immoral” people, prostitutes, and anyone guilty of “moral turpitude” was used to control sexual behavior...

... implications on Chinese national television. Jiaming stands out from other PLWHA covered in the national media for three reasons. First, he is portrayed as a moral person suffering from the consequence of an immoral activity (prostitution); second, he...

... and aes- thetics were recuperating humanism and directing attention to power as an oppressive structure that gained ground after the abolition of private prop- erty by the State, a vastly different understanding of power set forth...

... officers to “Japanize” colonized sub- jects, the kminka (imperialization of subjects) in the late 1930s placed the burden on the colonized to “become Japanese.”13 Abolition of the use of the Korean language, forced name change, and the enactment...

... frowned upon.10 Along with prostitutes and slaves, actors were classed as members of a “mean profession” (jianye),their outcast status confirmed by regulations prohibiting them and their descendants from sitting for the official...