Colonizing Sex

Colonizing Sex
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 284
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ISBN-10 : 0520936671
ISBN-13 : 9780520936676
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Book Synopsis Colonizing Sex by : Sabine Frühstück

Download or read book Colonizing Sex written by Sabine Frühstück and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-10-07 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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