What's in a condom?---HIV and sexual politics in Japan.
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.
Miller
Elizabeth
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Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 02114, USA. emiller1@partners.org
D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D000884:Anthropology, Cultural; D001294:Attitude to Health / Q000208:ethnology*; D003068:Coercion; D017280:Condoms; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007564:Japan / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D008402:Mass Media; D011057:Politics; D011209:Power, Psychological; D011477:Sex Work; D012725:Sexual Behavior / Q000208:ethnology*; D012749:Sexually Transmitted Diseases / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D012924:Social Conditions; D016387:Women's Health