| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 280 pages) |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Figures of desires -- pt. 2. Terms of relations |
| Summary |
This study explores the recent dramatic changes brought about in Japan by the influx of a non-Japanese population, Filipina brides. Lieba Faier investigates how Filipina women who emigrated to rural Japan to work in hostess bars--where initially they were widely disparaged as prostitutes and foreigners--came to be identified by the local residents as "ideal, traditional Japanese brides." Intimate Encounters, an ethnography of cultural encounters, unravels this paradox by examining the everyday relational dynamics that drive these interactions. Faier remaps Japan, the Philippines, and the United States into what she terms a "zone of encounters," showing how the meanings of Filipino and Japanese culture and identity are transformed and how these changes are accomplished through ordinary interpersonal exchanges. Intimate Encounters provides an insightful new perspective from which to reconsider national subjectivities amid the increasing pressures of globalization, thereby broadening and deepening our understanding of the larger issues of migration and disapora. --From publisher's description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Women -- Japan -- Social conditions
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Women -- Philippines -- Social conditions
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Women -- Japan -- History
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Women household employees -- Japan
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Women foreign workers -- Japan
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Foreign workers, Filipino -- Japan
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Foreign workers, Filipino
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Women
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Women foreign workers
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Women household employees
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Women -- Social conditions
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Japan
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Philippines
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021696626 |
| ISBN |
9780520944596 |
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0520944593 |
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9781461957447 |
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1461957443 |
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1283277204 |
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9781283277204 |
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9786613277206 |
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6613277207 |
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