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Author Faier, Lieba.

Title Intimate encounters : Filipina women and the remaking of rural Japan / Lieba Faier.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 280 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome.
Description text file
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents pt. 1. Figures of desires -- pt. 2. Terms of relations.
Summary This study explores the recent dramatic changes brought about in Japan by the influx of a non-Japanese population, Filipina brides. Lieba Faier investigates how Filipina women who emigrated to rural Japan to work in hostess bars--where initially they were widely disparaged as prostitutes and foreigners--came to be identified by the local residents as "ideal, traditional Japanese brides." Intimate Encounters, an ethnography of cultural encounters, unravels this paradox by examining the everyday relational dynamics that drive these interactions. Faier remaps Japan, the Philippines, and the United States into what she terms a "zone of encounters," showing how the meanings of Filipino and Japanese culture and identity are transformed and how these changes are accomplished through ordinary interpersonal exchanges. Intimate Encounters provides an insightful new perspective from which to reconsider national subjectivities amid the increasing pressures of globalization, thereby broadening and deepening our understanding of the larger issues of migration and disapora. --From publisher's description
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
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Language English.
Subject Women -- Japan -- Social conditions.
Women.
Japan.
Social conditions.
Women -- Philippines -- Social conditions.
Philippines.
Women -- Japan -- History.
Women household employees -- Japan.
History.
Women foreign workers -- Japan.
Women household employees.
Foreign workers, Filipino -- Japan.
Foreign workers, Filipino.
Women foreign workers.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Women -- Social conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic book.
Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Other Form: Print version: Intimate encounters Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009. 9780520252141 (alk. paper) (DLC) 2008050734
ISBN 9780520944596 ebook
0520944593
9780520252141 alkaline paper
0520252144 alkaline paper
9780520252158 paperback alkaline paper
9781461957447 (electronic book)
0520252152 paperback alkaline paper
1461957443 (electronic book)
1283277204
9781283277204
9786613277206
6613277207
Standard No. 10.1525/9780520944596