Intimate Japan
eBook - PDF

Intimate Japan

Ethnographies of Closeness and Conflict

  1. 284 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Intimate Japan

Ethnographies of Closeness and Conflict

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. CHAPTER 1. Introduction. The Stakes of Intimacy in Contemporary Japan
  4. CHAPTER 2. Students Outside the Classroom
  5. CHAPTER 3. Resisting Intervention, (En)trusting My Partner
  6. CHAPTER 4. Romantic and Sexual Intimacy before and beyond Marriage
  7. CHAPTER 5. What Can Be Said?
  8. CHAPTER 6. My Husband Is a Good Man When He Doesn’t Hit Me
  9. CHAPTER 7. Power, Intimacy, and Irregular Employment in Japan
  10. CHAPTER 8. Manhood and the Burdens of Intimacy
  11. CHAPTER 9. Gender Identity, Desire, and Intimacy
  12. CHAPTER 10. Beyond Blood Ties
  13. CHAPTER 11. Making Ordinary, If Not Ideal, Intimate Relationships
  14. CHAPTER 12. Connections, Conflicts, and Experiences of Intimacy in Japanese-Australian Families
  15. CHAPTER 13. Reflections on Fieldwork
  16. Contributors
  17. Index