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Love, Sex, and Democracy in Japan During the American Occupation
Mark McLelland
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Description for Love, Sex, and Democracy in Japan During the American Occupation
Hardcover. This is the first book in English to examine, through material in the popular press, the radical changes that took place in Japanese ideas about sex, romance and male-female relations in the wake of Japan's defeat and occupation by Allied forces at the end of the Second World War. Num Pages: 251 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJPG; HBTB; JFCA; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 432.
This is the first book in English to examine, through material in the popular press, the radical changes that took place in Japanese ideas about sex, romance and male-female relations in the wake of Japan's defeat and occupation by Allied forces at the end of the Second World War.
This is the first book in English to examine, through material in the popular press, the radical changes that took place in Japanese ideas about sex, romance and male-female relations in the wake of Japan's defeat and occupation by Allied forces at the end of the Second World War.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230120594
SKU
V9780230120594
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Mark McLelland
MARK MCLELLAND Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences, Media & Communication at the University of Wollongong, Australia.
Reviews for Love, Sex, and Democracy in Japan During the American Occupation
'With tenacity, diligence, and care, Mark McLelland has dug deep into a mountain of late 1940s' Japanese popular print sources to create a tantalizing new look into Occupied Japan.His story is grounded in fascinating details about Japan's postwar 'sexual revolution' that he weaves into a broader tale of how democracy developed under foreign occupation.Entertaining but never sensationalistic, Love, Sex, and ... Read more