{"product_id":"colonizing-sex-sexology-and-social-control-in-modern-japan-9780520235489","title":"Colonizing Sex: Sexology and Social Control in Modern Japan","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on a wide variety of sources, Fr?hst?ck 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 \u003ci\u003eColonizing Sex \u003c\/i\u003ewe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSabine Fr?hst?ck \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of Modern Japanese Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThe Culture of Japan as Seen through Its Leisure \u003c\/i\u003e(1998) and \u003ci\u003eNeue Geschichten der Sexualit?t: Beispiele aus Ostasien und Zentraleuropa 1700-2000 \u003c\/i\u003e(1999). She is currently completing a book on military-societal relations in modern Japan, entitled \u003ci\u003eAvant-garde: The Army of the Future\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50844584640786,"sku":"9780520235489","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5762acc7-4563-4f20-99bd-d2d97ccb441e.jpg?v=1737326149","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/colonizing-sex-sexology-and-social-control-in-modern-japan-9780520235489","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}