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A Note on Foreign Language Conventions
Introduction: The Politics of Gender, Sexuality, Race, and Class in the U.S. Military Empire
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
2. ‘‘Pan-Pan Girls’’ Performing and Resisting Neocolonialism(s) in the Pacific Theater: U.S. Military Prostitution in Occupied Japan, 1945–1952
3. ‘‘You Can’t Pin Sergeant’s Stripes on an Archangel’’: Soldiering, Sexuality, and U.S. Army Policies in Germany
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 the ‘‘New Global Posture’’
5. Crossfire Couples: Marginality and Agency among Okinawan Women in Relationships with U.S. Military Men
6. Hidden Soldiers: Working for the ‘‘National Defense’’
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
8. ‘‘The American Soldier Dances, the German Soldier Marches’’: The Transformation of Germans’ Views on GIs, Masculinity, and Militarism
9. In the Middle of the Road I Stand Transfixed
Part IV: The Empire under Siege: Racial Crisis, Abuse, and Violence
10. The Racial Crisis of 1971 in the U.S. Military: Finding Solutions in West Germany and South Korea
11. Camptown Prostitution and the Imperial Sofa: Abuse and Violence against Transnational Camptown Women in South Korea
12. Abu Ghraib: A Predictable Tragedy?
Conclusion: Empire at the Crossroads?