Sabine Frühstück is the Koichi Takashima Chair and Professor of Modern Japanese Cultural Studies at UC Santa Barbara.

'Encompassing the full sweep of modern history, and drawing upon the tools of multiple disciplines, this broad ranging and deeply insightful book is essential reading for anyone interested in what Japan has to teach us about the ways in which questions of sex, gender and sexuality define our world and its possibilities.' Daniel Botsman, Yale University

• 1. Building the nation and modern manhood; 2. Controlling reproduction and motherhood; 3. Redefining womanhoods; 4. Sex at war; 5. The politics of sexual labor; 6. Queer identities and activisms; 7. Sexing visual culture; 8. Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.

Sabine Frühstück is the Koichi Takashima Chair and Professor of Modern Japanese Cultural Studies at UC Santa Barbara.

'Encompassing the full sweep of modern history, and drawing upon the tools of multiple disciplines, this broad ranging and deeply insightful book is essential reading for anyone interested in what Japan has to teach us about the ways in which questions of sex, gender and sexuality define our world and its possibilities.' Daniel Botsman, Yale University

• 1. Building the nation and modern manhood; 2. Controlling reproduction and motherhood; 3. Redefining womanhoods; 4. Sex at war; 5. The politics of sexual labor; 6. Queer identities and activisms; 7. Sexing visual culture; 8. Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.