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Intimate Japan : ethnographies of closeness and conflict /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Alexy, Allison (Editor), Cook, Emma E. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Intimacy (Psychology) > Social aspects > Japan.
Social change > Japan.
Social change.
Japan.
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.