"Anyone interested in the history of western sexuality will want to
read this book because of how it refracts the huge project of
sexology through the eyes of another people, the Japanese, who
appropriated it as part of their own project of modernization. And
anyone interested in Japan will find Fruhstuck 's story fascinating
for what it shows about the role of the professions, the place of
education, and the work of politics more generally. This is a
funny, brilliant book that carries its theoretical sophistication
and great erudition lightly."--Thomas Laqueur, author of "Solitary
Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation
"Sabine Fruhstuck has written a cogent history of Japanese
public health, sex education, and sexology. Spanning the late
nineteenth century to the present, her lively study introduces a
colorful array of birth control activists, eugenicists, and
sexologists."--Helen Hardacre, author of "Marketing the Menacing
Fetus in Japan
"Fruhstuck's study of modern Japan imaginatively uses the
concept of colonization to explain how Japanese elite's made use of
Western ideas of hygiene to modernize the nation. By controlling
procreation, venereal disease, sex education, and racial health,
they reinforced the traditional gender order and helped provide the
human materials for the great era of Japanese Imperial
expansion."--Robert A. Nye, author of "Masculinity and Male Codes
of Honor in Modern France
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