基本説明
Examines interactions between U.S. soldiers and members of host communities in the three locations-Korea, Japan/Okinawa, and West Germany.
Full Description
Over There explores the social impact of America's global network of more than 700 military bases. It does so by examining interactions between U.S. soldiers and members of host communities in the three locations-South Korea, Japan and Okinawa, and West Germany-where more than-two thirds of American overseas bases and troops have been concentrated for the past six decades. The essays in this collection highlight the role of cultural and racial assumptions in the maintenance of the American military base system, and the ways that civil-military relations play out locally. Describing how political, spatial, and social arrangements shape relations between American garrisons and surrounding communities, they emphasize such factors as whether military bases are located in democratic nations or in authoritarian countries where cooperation with dictatorial regimes fuels resentment; whether bases are integrated into neighboring communities or isolated and surrounded by "camp towns" wholly dependent on their business; and whether the United States sends single soldiers without families on one-year tours of duty or soldiers who bring their families and serve longer tours. Analyzing the implications of these and other situations, the contributors address U.S. military-regulated relations between GIs and local women; the roles of American women, including military wives, abroad; local resistance to the U.S. military presence; and racism, sexism, and homophobia within the U.S. military. Over There is an essential examination of the American military as a global and transnational phenomenon.Contributors
Donna Alvah
Chris Ames
Jeff Bennett
Maria HÖhn
Seungsook Moon
Christopher Nelson
Robin Riley
Michiko Takeuchi
Contents
Illustrations ix
Tables xi
A Note on Foreign Language Conventions xiii
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction. The Politics of Gender, Sexuality, Race, and Class in the U. S. Military Empire / Maria Hohn and Seungsook Moon 1
Part I. Monitored Liaisons: Local Women and GIs in the Making of Empire
1. Regulating Desire, Managing the Empire: U. S. Military Prostitution in South Korea, 1945-1970 / Seungsook Moon 39
2. "Pan-Pan Girls" Performing and Resisting Neocolonialism(s) in the Pacific Theater: U. S. Military Prostitution in Occupied Japan, 1945-1952 / Michiko Takeuchi 78
3. "You Can't Pin Sergeant's Stripes on an Archangel": Soldiering, Sexuality, and U. S. Politics in Germany / Maria Hohn 109
Part II. Civilian Entanglements with the Empire: American and Foreign Women Abroad and at Home
4. U. S. Military Families Abroad in the Post-Cold War Era and "New Global Posture" / Donna Alvah 149
5. Crossfire Couples: Marginality and Agency among Okinawan Women in Relationships with U. S. Military Men / Chris Ames 176
6. Hidden Soldiers: Working for the "National Defense" / Robin Riley 203
Part III. Talking Back to the Empire: Local Men and Women
7. In the U. S. Army but Not Quite of It: Contesting the Imperial Power in a Discourse of Katusas / Seungsook Moon 231
8. "The American Soldier Dances, the German Soldier Marches": The Transformation of Germans' Views on GIs, Masculinity, and Militarism / Maria Hohn 258
9. In the Middle of the Road I Stand Transfixed / Christopher Nelson 280
Part IV. The Empire Under Siege: Racial Crisis, Abuse, and Violence
10. The Racial Crisis of 1970-1971 in the U. S. Military: Finding Solutions in West Germany and South Korea / Maria Hohn 311
11. Camptown Prostitution and the Imperial SOFA: Abuse and Violence against Transnational Camptown Women in South Korea / Seungsook Moon 337
12. Abu Ghraib: A Predictable Tragedy? / Jeff Bennett 366
Conclusion. The Empire at the Crossroads? / Maria Hohn and Seungsook Moon 397
References 409
Contributors 439
Index 441
