Intimacy across the Fencelines: Intimacy across the Fencelines
Rebecca Forgash
Abstract
This book examines intimacy in the form of sexual encounters, dating, marriage, and family that involve US service members and local residents. The book analyzes the stories of individual U.S. 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 ... More
Keywords: sexual encounters, intimacy, dating, marriage, family, U.S. service members, Okinawan history, U.S.–Japan security alliance
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2020 | Print ISBN-13: 9781501750403 |
| Published to Cornell Scholarship Online: January 2021 | DOI:10.7591/cornell/9781501750403.001.0001 |
