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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