Intimacy across the Fencelines

Sex, Marriage, and the U.S. Military in Okinawa

Rebecca Forgash (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2020
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-5040-3 (ISBN)

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Intimacy Across the Fencelines examines intimacy in the form of sexual encounters, dating, marriage, and family that involve US service members and local residents. Rebecca Forgash analyzes the stories of individual US service members and their Okinawan spouses and family members against the backdrop of Okinawan history, political and economic entanglements with Japan and the United States, and a longstanding anti-base movement. The narratives highlight the simultaneously repressive and creative power of military "fencelines," sites of symbolic negotiation and struggle involving gender, race, and class that divide the social landscape in communities that host US bases.

Intimacy Across the Fencelines anchors the global US military complex and US-Japan security alliance in intimate everyday experiences and emotions, illuminating important aspects of the lived experiences of war and imperialism.

Rebecca Forgash is Professor of Anthropology at Metropolitan State University of Denver.

Introduction: The Intimate Effects of U.S. Empire

1. International Marriage in Japan's Periphery

2. Race, Memory, and Military Men's Sexuality

3. Living Respectably and Negotiating Class

4. The Marine Corps Marriage Package

5. Creating Family and Community across Military Fencelines

Conclusion: On Stories and Silences

Erscheinungsdatum	14.07.2020
Zusatzinfo	2 Maps; 1 Line drawings, black and white; 8 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort	Ithaca
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	907 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-5017-5040-2 / 1501750402
ISBN-13	978-1-5017-5040-3 / 9781501750403
Zustand	Neuware