Relationship People - Mediating Love and Marriage in Twenty-First Century Japan

The Relationship People examines the marriage industry and its clients in neoliberal Japan. It addresses what industry professionals are promoting to ease Japan's low rates of marriage and childbirth, what singles are actually doing, and whether focusing on introducing more singles to each other can effectively solve Japan's millennial woes.

List of contents

Chapter 1. Introduction: Love's Labors and Laborers
Chapter 2. Crafting Identity and Dis/Connection with Phatic Language
Chapter 3. Inventing and Reinventing Matchmaking as Phatic Entrepreneurship
Chapter 4. The Protean Landscape of the Internet
Chapter 5. Structural Problems, Phatic "Solutions"

About the author

By Erika R Alpert

Product details

• Authors: Erika R Alpert
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.04.2024
• EAN: 9781498594226
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-9422-6
• No. of pages: 178
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Ethnic Studies, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Dating, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, Asia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Dating, relationships, living together & marriage, Sociology: family & relationships, Social and cultural anthropology, Sociology: family and relationships, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Marriage & Long-Term Relationships, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity