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Nightwork : sexuality, pleasure, and corporate masculinity in a Tokyo hostess club / Anne Allison.
Van Pelt Library GT3415.J3 A45 1994
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Allison, Anne, 1950-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bars (Drinking establishments)--Japan--Toyko.
- Bars (Drinking establishments).
- Entertaining--Japan--Tokyo.
- Entertaining.
- Male friendship--Japan--Tokyo.
- Male friendship.
- Corporate culture--Japan--Tokyo.
- Corporate culture.
- Cocktail servers--Japan--Tokyo.
- Cocktail servers.
- Tokyo (Japan)--Social life and customs.
- Tokyo (Japan).
- Japan--Tokyo.
- Japan.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 213 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1994.
- Summary:
- Acknowledgments Prelude Introduction Pt. 1: Ethnography of a Hostess Club Ch. 1: A Type of Place Ch. 2: A Type of Routine Ch. 3: A Type of Woman Pt. 2: Mapping the Nightlife within Cultural Categories Introduction Ch. 4: Social Place and Identity Ch. 5: The Meaning and Place of Work: The Sarariiman Ch. 6: Family and Home Ch. 7: Structure of Japanese Play Ch. 8: Male Play with Money, Women, and Sex Pt. 3: Male Rituals and Masculinity Introduction Ch. 9: Male Bonding Ch. 10: The Mizu Shobai Woman: Constructing Dirtiness and Sex Ch. 11: Impotence as a Sign and Symbol of the Sarariiman References Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-209) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0226014851
- 0226014878
- OCLC:
- 28966869
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