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Intimacy Across the Fencelines: Sex, Marriage, and the U.S. Military in Okinawa

Intimacy Across the Fencelines: Sex, Marriage, and the U.S. Military in Okinawa

Hardcover

AnthropologyGeneral Military HistoryJapanese History

ISBN10: 1501750402
ISBN13: 9781501750403
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Published: Aug 15 2020
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.12
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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