Intimate Japan: Ethnographies of Closeness and Conflict

289 Pages·2018·3.625 MB·English

by  Allison Alexy, Emma E. Cook

INTIMATE JAPAN

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INTIMATE

JAPAN

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Ethnographies of Closeness
and Conflict
Edited by Allison Alexy
and Emma E. Cook
University of Hawai‘i Press

Honolulu

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Contents

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Acknowledgments
xi
Chapter One
Introduction
The Stakes of Intimacy in Contemporary Japan
Allison Alexy
1
Chapter Two
Students Outside the Classroom
Youth’s Intimate Experiences in 1990s Japan
Yukari Kawahara
35
Chapter Three
Resisting Intervention, (En)trusting My Partner
Unmarried Women’s Narratives about Contraceptive Use in Tokyo
Shana Fruehan Sandberg
54
Chapter Four
Romantic and Sexual Intimacy
before and beyond Marriage
Laura Dales and Beverley Anne Yamamoto
73
vii
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viii Contents
Chapter Five
What Can Be Said?
Communicating Intimacy in Millennial Japan
Allison Alexy
91
Chapter Six
My Husband Is a Good Man When He Doesn’t Hit Me
Redefining Intimacy among Victims of Domestic Violence
Kaoru Kuwajima
112
Chapter Seven
Power, Intimacy, and Irregular Employment in Japan
Emma E. Cook
129
Chapter Eight
Manhood and the Burdens of Intimacy
Elizabeth Miles
148
Chapter Nine
Gender Identity, Desire, and Intimacy
Sexual Scripts and X-Gender
S. P. F. Dale
164
Chapter Ten
Beyond Blood Ties
Intimate Kinships in Japanese Foster and Adoptive Care
Kathryn E. Goldfarb
181
Chapter Eleven
Making Ordinary, If Not Ideal, Intimate Relationships
Japanese-Chinese Transnational Matchmaking
Chigusa Yamaura
199
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Contents ix
Chapter Twelve
Connections, Conflicts, and Experiences of

Intimacy in Japanese-Australian Families

Diana Adis Tahhan
219
Chapter Thirteen
Reflections on Fieldwork
Exploring Intimacy
Allison Alexy and Emma E. Cook
236
Contributors
261
Index
265
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