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Healing labor [electronic resource] : Japanese sex work in the gendered economy / Gabriele Koch

Author
Koch, Gabriele, 1984-
Published
Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2020]
Physical Description
xv, 230 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Contents
Sex in gray spaces -- First-timers welcome! -- Stigma and the moral economy -- Healing customers -- Victims all -- Risk and rights.
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ISBN
9781503610576 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
9781503611344 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9781503611351 (electronic)
Note
examines how adult Japanese women working in Tokyo's sex industry experience and understand contradictions surrounding the social and economic value of their work. In highlighting these disjunctions, Koch challenges the conceptual and gendered separation of sex from economic activity in order to illustrate both the mutual constitution of economic and erotic life as well as men's reliance on women's economic labor more broadly.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-219) and index.
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