1. What's in a condom?---HIV and sexual politics in Japan.
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Miller, Elizabeth
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HIV infections , *AIDS , *SEX work , *CONDOMS , *PREVENTION of sexually transmitted diseases , *AIDS prevention , *CONTROL (Psychology) , *COMPARATIVE studies , *EMIGRATION & immigration , *ETHNOLOGY , *HEALTH attitudes , *INTERPERSONAL relations , *MASS media , *RESEARCH methodology , *MEDICAL cooperation , *PRACTICAL politics , *POWER (Social sciences) , *RESEARCH , *HUMAN sexuality , *SEXUALLY transmitted diseases , *WOMEN'S health , *SOCIOECONOMIC factors , *EVALUATION research - Abstract
Utilizing a range of ethnographic data from an AIDS hotline, a women's shelter, a night club, AIDS campaigns, news articles, and interviews with health bureaucrats, this paper explores the history of AIDS in Japan and the ways in which official practices reproduce systems of domination. This paper examines the official categories of "foreign woman" and "prostitution" as discursive strategies of containment, and argues that nationalist discourses and representations of sexuality are closely linked in maintaining relations of power. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2002
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