Intimate Japan : Ethnographies of Closeness and Conflict / / edited by Allison Alexy and Emma E. Cook.
In contemporary Japan, as the Japanese population ages, the low birth rate shrinks the population, and decades of recession radically restructure labor markets' intimate relationships, norms, and ideals are concurrently shifting. This volume explores a broad range of intimate practices in Jap...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaiʻi Press,, [2019] ©[2019] |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 270 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the stakes of intimacy in contemporary Japan / Allison Alexy
- Students outside the classroom : youth's intimate experiences in 1990s Japan / Yukari Kawahara
- Resisting intervention, (en)trusting my partner : unmarried women's narratives about contraceptive use in Tokyo / Shana Fruehan Sandberg
- Romantic and sexual intimacy before and beyond marriage / Laura Dales and Beverley Yamamoto
- What can be said? : communicating intimacy in millennial Japan / Allison Alexy
- My husband is a good man when he doesn't hit me : redefining intimacy among victims of domestic violence / Kaoru Kuwajima
- Power, intimacy, and irregular employment in Japan / Emma E. Cook
- Manhood and the burdens of intimacy / Elizabeth Miles
- Gender identity, desire, and intimacy : sexual scripts and x-gender / S.P.F. Dale
- Beyond blood ties : intimate kinships in Japanese foster and adoptive care / Kathryn Goldfarb
- Making ordinary, if not ideal, intimate relationships : Japanese-Chinese transnational matchmaking / Chigusa Yamaura
- Connections, conflicts, and experiences of intimacy in Japanese-Australian families / Diana Adis Tahhan
- Reflections on fieldwork : exploring intimacy / Allison Alexy and Emma E. Cook.