A collection of essays exploring the world-wide U.S. military base system and its interplay with social relations of gender and sexuality in the U.S. and foreign host nations.
A collection of essays exploring the world-wide U.S. military base system and its interplay with social relations of gender and sexuality in the U.S. and foreign host nations.
Maria Höhn is Professor of History at Vassar College. She is the author of GIs and Fräuleins: The German-American Encounter in 1950s West Germany and (with Martin Klimke) A Breath of Freedom: The Civil Rights Struggle, African American GIs, and Germany. Seungsook Moon is Professor of Sociology at Vassar College. She is the author of Militarized Modernity and Gendered Citizenship in South Korea, also published by Duke University Press.
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Illustrations ix Tables xi A Note on Foreign Language Conventions xiii Acknowledgments xv Introduction. The Politics of Gender, Sexuality, Race, and Class in the U. S. Military Empire / Maria Hohn and Seungsook Moon 1 Part I. Monitored Liaisons: Local Women and GIs in the Making of Empire 1. Regulating Desire, Managing the Empire: U. S. Military Prostitution in South Korea, 1945-1970 / Seungsook Moon 39 2. "Pan-Pan Girls" Performing and Resisting Neocolonialism(s) in the Pacific Theater: U. S. Military Prostitution in Occupied Japan, 1945-1952 / Michiko Takeuchi 78 3. "You Can't Pin Sergeant's Stripes on an Archangel": Soldiering, Sexuality, and U. S. Politics in Germany / Maria Hohn 109 Part II. Civilian Entanglements with the Empire: American and Foreign Women Abroad and at Home 4. U. S. Military Families Abroad in the Post-Cold War Era and "New Global Posture" / Donna Alvah 149 5. Crossfire Couples: Marginality and Agency among Okinawan Women in Relationships with U. S. Military Men / Chris Ames 176 6. Hidden Soldiers: Working for the "National Defense" / Robin Riley 203 Part III. Talking Back to the Empire: Local Men and Women 7. In the U. S. Army but Not Quite of It: Contesting the Imperial Power in a Discourse of Katusas / Seungsook Moon 231 8. "The American Soldier Dances, the German Soldier Marches": The Transformation of Germans' Views on GIs, Masculinity, and Militarism / Maria Hohn 258 9. In the Middle of the Road I Stand Transfixed / Christopher Nelson 280 Part IV. The Empire Under Siege: Racial Crisis, Abuse, and Violence 10. The Racial Crisis of 1970-1971 in the U. S. Military: Finding Solutions in West Germany and South Korea / Maria Hohn 311 11. Camptown Prostitution and the Imperial SOFA: Abuse and Violence against Transnational Camptown Women in South Korea / Seungsook Moon 337 12. Abu Ghraib: A Predictable Tragedy? / Jeff Bennett 366 Conclusion. The Empire at the Crossroads? / Maria Hohn and Seungsook Moon 397 References 409 Contributors 439 Index 441
Illustrations ix Tables xi A Note on Foreign Language Conventions xiii Acknowledgments xv Introduction. The Politics of Gender, Sexuality, Race, and Class in the U. S. Military Empire / Maria Hohn and Seungsook Moon 1 Part I. Monitored Liaisons: Local Women and GIs in the Making of Empire 1. Regulating Desire, Managing the Empire: U. S. Military Prostitution in South Korea, 1945-1970 / Seungsook Moon 39 2. "Pan-Pan Girls" Performing and Resisting Neocolonialism(s) in the Pacific Theater: U. S. Military Prostitution in Occupied Japan, 1945-1952 / Michiko Takeuchi 78 3. "You Can't Pin Sergeant's Stripes on an Archangel": Soldiering, Sexuality, and U. S. Politics in Germany / Maria Hohn 109 Part II. Civilian Entanglements with the Empire: American and Foreign Women Abroad and at Home 4. U. S. Military Families Abroad in the Post-Cold War Era and "New Global Posture" / Donna Alvah 149 5. Crossfire Couples: Marginality and Agency among Okinawan Women in Relationships with U. S. Military Men / Chris Ames 176 6. Hidden Soldiers: Working for the "National Defense" / Robin Riley 203 Part III. Talking Back to the Empire: Local Men and Women 7. In the U. S. Army but Not Quite of It: Contesting the Imperial Power in a Discourse of Katusas / Seungsook Moon 231 8. "The American Soldier Dances, the German Soldier Marches": The Transformation of Germans' Views on GIs, Masculinity, and Militarism / Maria Hohn 258 9. In the Middle of the Road I Stand Transfixed / Christopher Nelson 280 Part IV. The Empire Under Siege: Racial Crisis, Abuse, and Violence 10. The Racial Crisis of 1970-1971 in the U. S. Military: Finding Solutions in West Germany and South Korea / Maria Hohn 311 11. Camptown Prostitution and the Imperial SOFA: Abuse and Violence against Transnational Camptown Women in South Korea / Seungsook Moon 337 12. Abu Ghraib: A Predictable Tragedy? / Jeff Bennett 366 Conclusion. The Empire at the Crossroads? / Maria Hohn and Seungsook Moon 397 References 409 Contributors 439 Index 441
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