Intimacy across the Fencelines - Sex, Marriage, and the U.S. Military in Okinawa (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Cornell University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2020
First published:	2021
Authors:	Rebecca Forgash
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	240
ISBN-13:	978-1-5017-5040-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General Books > Humanities > History > General Books > History > General
LSN:	1-5017-5040-2
Barcode:	9781501750403

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