Healing Labor: Japanese Sex Work in the Gendered Economy By Gabriele Koch. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2020. 248 pp. ISBN: 9781503610576 (cloth; also available in paper and as e-book).

Anne Allison is a cultural anthropologist who researches the intersection between political economy, everyday life, and the imagination in the context of late capitalist, post-industrial Japan. Her work spans the subjects of sexuality, pornography, and maternal labor to the globalization of Japanese youth products and the precarity of irregular workers. She is the author of Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club (University of Chicago Press, 1994—an et