Too-Good Wife - Alcohol, Codependency, and the Politics of Nurturance in Postwar Japan

Informationen zum Autor Amy Borovoy is Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies at Princeton University. Klappentext “Amy Borovoy has beautifully portrayed the dilemmas of being female in modern Japan, and the nuanced grace with which these women manage their particular difficulties. She has created an indelible portrait of the way women struggle with the eternal questions of being mothers and wives, in particularly Japanese ways, and the ways in which they reflect upon and manage their lives. It is a remarkable book.”—Tanya Luhrmann, Max Palevsky Professor in the Committee on Human Development, University of Chicago Zusammenfassung Social drinking is an accepted aspect of working life in Japan, and women are left to manage their drunken husbands when they return home. This book follows the experiences of a group of middle-class women in Tokyo who participated in a weekly support meeting for families of substance abusers at a public mental-health clinic. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: "Dirty Lukewarm Water" 1. Alcoholism and Codependency: New Vocabularies for Unspeakable Problems 2. Motherhood! Nurturance! and "Total Care" in Postwar National Ideology 3. Good Wives: Negotiating Marital Relationships 4. A Success Story 5. The Inescapable Discourse of Motherhood Conclusion: The Home as a Feminist Dilemma Notes References Index

Product details

• Authors: Amy Borovoy, Amy Beth Borovoy, Borovoy Amy
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.12.2005
• EAN: 9780520244528
• ISBN: 978-0-520-24452-8
• No. of pages: 251
• Series: Ethnographic Studies in Subjec; Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Archaeology, Social and cultural anthropology, Gender studies, gender groups