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Healing Labor : Japanese Sex Work in the Gendered Economy
Author
Title
Healing Labor : Japanese Sex Work in the Gendered Economy / Gabriele Koch.
ISBN
9781503611351
Publication
Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2020]
Copyright Notice Date
©2020
Physical Description
1 online resource (248 p.)
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Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
In English.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
Contemporary Japan is home to one of the world's largest and most diversified markets for sex. Widely understood to be socially necessary, the sex industry operates and recruits openly, staffed by a diverse group of women who are attracted by its high pay and the promise of autonomy-but whose work remains stigmatized and unmentionable. Based on fieldwork with adult Japanese women in Tokyo's sex industry, Healing Labor explores the relationship between how sex workers think about what sex is and what it does and the political-economic roles and possibilities that they imagine for themselves. Gabriele Koch reveals how Japanese sex workers regard sex as a deeply feminized care-a healing labor-that is both necessary and significant for the well-being and productivity of men. In this nuanced ethnography that approaches sex as a social practice with political and economic effects, Koch compellingly illustrates the linkages between women's work, sex, and the gendered economy.
Variant and related titles
De Gruyter University Press eBook pilot project 2020.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 17, 2022
Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Author's Notes
Introduction
1. Sex in Gray Spaces
2. First-Timers Welcome!
3. Stigma and the Moral Economy
4. Healing Customers
5. Victims All
6. Risk and Rights
Epilogue
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
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