Intimate disconnections : : divorce and the romance of independence in contemporary Japan / / Allison Alexy.
"For centuries, women have been expected to endure bad marriages. When divorce did happen, it was most often on the husband's initiative. Now, not only in the West but around the world, people who never thought seriously about divorce are fantasizing about it. Others are newly anxious that...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Chicago, Illinois : : University of Chicago Press,, 2020. |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) :; 6 halftones, 2 tables |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Freedom and Anxiety
- The Beginning of the End
- Japan's Intimate Political Economy
- Tips to Avoid Divorce
- Legal Dissolutions
- Constructing Mutuality
- Families Together and Apart
- Living as an X
- The Costs of Divorce
- Bonds of Disconnection
- Conclusion: Endings and New Beginnings.