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1 online resource (xv, 280 pages) |
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polychrome. |
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text file |
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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 |
Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Language |
English. |
Subject |
Women -- Japan -- Social conditions.
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Women. |
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Japan. |
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Social conditions. |
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Women -- Philippines -- Social conditions.
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Philippines. |
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Women -- Japan -- History.
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Women household employees -- Japan.
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History. |
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Women foreign workers -- Japan.
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Women household employees. |
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Foreign workers, Filipino -- Japan.
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Foreign workers, Filipino. |
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Women foreign workers. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. |
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Women -- Social conditions. |
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Electronic book.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
Other Form: |
Print version: Intimate encounters Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009. 9780520252141 (alk. paper) (DLC) 2008050734 |
ISBN |
9780520944596 ebook |
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0520944593 |
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9780520252141 alkaline paper |
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0520252144 alkaline paper |
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9780520252158 paperback alkaline paper |
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9781461957447 (electronic book) |
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0520252152 paperback alkaline paper |
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1461957443 (electronic book) |
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1283277204 |
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9781283277204 |
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9786613277206 |
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6613277207 |
Standard No. |
10.1525/9780520944596 |
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