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Colonizing Sex: Sexology and Social Control in Modern Japan

Colonizing Sex: Sexology and Social Control in Modern Japan

Frühstück, Sabine

Paperback

Series: Colonialisms, Book 4

AnthropologyGeneral SociologySexuality

ISBN10: 0520235487
ISBN13: 9780520235489
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Oct 7 2003
Pages: 267
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.08 Depth: 8.96
Language: English
A sweeping study of sex, power, and knowledge in modern Japan, this ambitious work provides the first full-scale, detailed history of the formation and application of a science of sex from Meiji through mid-twentieth century Japan. Tracing the different uses made of sexual knowledge, the book brings to light the complex and subtle interplay between sexuality, scientific expertise, social control, and empire building.

Drawing on a wide variety of sources, Frühstück analyzes the conflicts and negotiations that aimed at producing a normative sexuality. She shows how the colonization of sex was enacted through debates over several issues: the necessity of sex education; the prevention of venereal diseases; the problem of masturbation and its alleged consequences; the legalization of birth control; the fight against prostitution; the emergence of eugenics; and, eventually, the implementation of racial hygiene policies. In Colonizing Sex we see how these struggles were driven by rhetoric consisting of cries for defense, liberation, and truth--emphasizing in every historical moment how the sexual body has been, and is, part of much broader currents in political, cultural, and social life.

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