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).
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Allison, Anne (2022). 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). The Journal of Asian Studies, 81(3). pp. 594-596. 10.1017/s0021911822000808. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/26357.This is constructed from limited available data and may be imprecise. To cite this
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Anne Allison
Professor of Cultural Anthropology
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

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