Intimate Japan - Ethnographies of Closeness and Conflict

About the author

Allison Alexy (Editor)
Allison Alexy is assistant professor in the Department of Women's Studies and the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan.

Emma E. Cook (Editor)
Emma E. Cook is associate professor in the Modern Japanese Studies Program at Hokkaido University.

Summary

Explores a broad range of intimate practices in Japan in the first decades of the 2000s to trace how social change is becoming manifest through deeply personal choices. The volume's chapters offer rich and complex portraits of how people balance personal desires with feasible possibilities and shifting social norms.

Product details

• Assisted by: Allison Alexy (Editor), Emma E Cook (Editor), Emma E. Cook (Editor)
• Publisher: University of hawaii press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9780824873356
• ISBN: 978-0-8248-7335-6
• No. of pages: 284
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 226 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 431 g
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories