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Women on the verge : Japanese women, Western dreams / Karen Kelsky.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kelsky, Karen, 1964-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Asia-Pacific.
- Asia-Pacific
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Japan--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Women--Employment--Japan.
- Women--Japan--Identity.
- Women--Employment--Foreign countries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (310 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Explores issues of gender, race and national identity in Japan, by taking up for critical analysis an emergent national trend, in which some urban Japanese women turn to the West--through study abroad, work abroad, and romance with Westerners-- in order
- Contents:
- 1. The promised land : a genealogy of female internationalism
- 2. Internationalism as resistance
- 3. Capital and the fetish of the white man
- 4. (Re)flexibility in inflexible places
- Conclusion : strange bedfellows.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-281) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613063120
- 9781283063128
- 1283063123
- 9780822383277
- 0822383276
- OCLC:
- 245538769
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