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Love in modern Japan : its estrangement from self, sex, and society / Sonia Ryang.
Penn Museum Library GN635.J2 R93 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ryang, Sonia.
- Series:
- Anthropology of Asia series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex customs--Japan--History.
- Sex customs.
- Gender identity.
- Ethnopsychology.
- Japan.
- History.
- Rites and ceremonies--Japan--History.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- Ethnopsychology--Japan.
- Gender identity--Japan.
- Japan--Social life and customs.
- Manners and customs.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 176 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
- Summary:
- This compelling and controversial book places the concept of love in both a social and historical context. Taking an approach in which state formation and vicissitude of power are explicitly taken into account in the discussion of intimacy and love, the author demonstrates that love as idealization and love as sexuality must be kept analytically separate. Chapters include discussions on sexualized rituals and fertility festivals, the murder case of Abe Sada, pure love in Miko and Makos tragedy and the 1990s phenomenon of enjokosai or aid-date. Combining ethnographic, theoretical and archival research, this text will appeal to scholars of Japanese anthropology, feminist anthropology and gender studies alike.
- Contents:
- Sacred sex
- Sovereign and love
- Pure love
- Body and soul.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [151]-167) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 041577005X
- 0203967038
- OCLC:
- 66392910
- Online:
- Publisher description
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