<i>Karayuki‐San:</i>Japanese prostitutes in Australia, 1887–1916—II∗

Sissons, D. C. S.

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“…Thus, bushworkers, miners, unmarried men and -especially in times of warsoldiers and sailors, were seen to have specific biological needs for sexual intercourse outside of the bonds of marriage. Prostitutes were regarded as the most suitable women to meet these needs while aboriginal women and imported Japanese prostitutes were seen to be particularly useful for servicing the sexual requirements of Chinese immigrants and 'coloured' labourers indentured upon sugar plantations and pearl luggers in Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern Territory (Sissons, 1977;Davidson, 1984;Horan, 1984;Evans,1984).…”

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The Business of Sex: Australian Government and the Sex Industry

Sullivan¹

1991

The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology

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The expansion of the sex industry over the last three decades has been met by a range of political strategies and responses. This paper examines some of the concerns that have been taken up by Australian parliaments in relation to the trade in both pornography and prostitution. It identifies several important discursive shifts in the postwar period around the figure of the prostitute, the client of prostitution services and the consumer of pornography. While the consumption of pornography has increasingly been regarded by Australian parliaments as a private and legitimate activity for adults, the prostitution industry has become the object of a new pathologising discourse. For the first time in Australian culture, both prostitutes and their clients have been located as sexually problematic. Since the early 1960s, therefore, the prostitution trade, unlike the pornography trade, has become subject to increasing legal surveillance and criminalisation. Some of the implications and consequences of these trends are examined within the broad context of sexual politics in Australian society and government.The sex industry in Australia, which produces and markets a range of pornography and prostitution services, has undergone a remarkable expansion and diversification over the last four decades. Since the late 1960s, in particular, significant qualitative changes in the pornography available on the

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The Business of Sex: Australian Government and the Sex Industry

Sullivan¹

1991

The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology

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“…These were home to Indigenous Australians, European settlers and non-European indentured laborers and residents including Pacific Islanders, Malays, Filipinos, Singhalese, Chinese and Japanese (Reynolds 2003). While the vast majority of them were men, | 112 Japanese sex workers found employment in Japanese brothels, and smaller numbers of Malay, Chinese, and European sex workers also worked across the Far North region in these mining, sugarcane, and pearling towns (James 1989;Sissons 1977aSissons , 1977bNagata 1996Nagata , 2004. For example, in 1897, there were fifty-four Japanese sex workers living on Thursday Island (Nagata 2004).…”

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Buddhism in the Far North of Australia pre-WWII: (In)visibility, Post-colonialism and Materiality

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Buddhism was first established in Australia through flows of migrants in the mid-nineteenth century, and is currently Australia’s fourth-largest religion. Yet Buddhists have received significantly less scholarly attention than Christians, Jews and Muslims in Australia. Previous research conducted on Buddhism in Australia has also largely centered on the southern states, and on white Buddhists. This article shares findings of archival research on Buddhism in the far north of Australia, focused on Chinese, Japanese, and Sri Lankan communities working in mining, pearling, and sugar cane industries, pre-WWII. It documents the histories of exclusion, resistance and belonging experienced by Australia’s Buddhists in the far north of Australia pre-WWII, during times of colonial oppression and Japanese internment. In so doing, this article challenges dominant narratives of a white Christian Australia, and also of white Buddhism in Australia, by rendering Asian communities in scholarship on religion in Australia more visible.

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“…They were hidden in cargo ships and escorted by their traffickers. 44 One Japanese woman who left Japan without a passport was advised by a Japanese boarding-house keeper in Hong Kong to go to Thursday Island as she 'could freely land there without passports [sic]'. 45 In August 1898, for example, the vessel, Yamashiro Maru, arrived at Thursday Island carrying 12 Japanese -eight males and four females.…”

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The Japanese in Torres Strait

Nagata¹

2017

Navigating Boundaries: The Asian Diaspora in Torres Strait

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Karayuki‐San:Japanese prostitutes in Australia, 1887–1916—II∗

Cited by 16 publications

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The Business of Sex: Australian Government and the Sex Industry

The Business of Sex: Australian Government and the Sex Industry

Buddhism in the Far North of Australia pre-WWII: (In)visibility, Post-colonialism and Materiality

The Japanese in Torres Strait

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