Intimate Japan Ethnographies of Closeness and Conflict / edited by Allison Alexy and Emma E. Cook. - 1 online resource (xii, 270 pages) - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : the stakes of intimacy in contemporary Japan / Allison Alexy -- Students outside the classroom : youth's intimate experiences in 1990s Japan / Yukari Kawahara -- Resisting intervention, (en)trusting my partner : unmarried women's narratives about contraceptive use in Tokyo / Shana Fruehan Sandberg -- Romantic and sexual intimacy before and beyond marriage / Laura Dales and Beverley Yamamoto -- What can be said? : communicating intimacy in millennial Japan / Allison Alexy -- My husband is a good man when he doesn't hit me : redefining intimacy among victims of domestic violence / Kaoru Kuwajima -- Power, intimacy, and irregular employment in Japan / Emma E. Cook -- Manhood and the burdens of intimacy / Elizabeth Miles -- Gender identity, desire, and intimacy : sexual scripts and x-gender / S.P.F. Dale -- Beyond blood ties : intimate kinships in Japanese foster and adoptive care / Kathryn Goldfarb -- Making ordinary, if not ideal, intimate relationships : Japanese-Chinese transnational matchmaking / Chigusa Yamaura -- Connections, conflicts, and experiences of intimacy in Japanese-Australian families / Diana Adis Tahhan -- Reflections on fieldwork : exploring intimacy / Allison Alexy and Emma E. Cook.

Open Access

9780824877040




Social change--Japan.
Intimacy (Psychology)--Social aspects--Japan.


Electronic books.

HQ682 / .I58 2019

303.4