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The too-good wife : alcohol, codependency, and the politics of nurturance in postwar Japan /

Social drinking is an accepted aspect of working life in Japan, and women are left to manage their drunken husbands when the men return home, restoring them to sobriety for the next day of work. In attempting to cope with their husbands' alcoholism, the women face a profound cultural dilemma: w...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Borovoy, Amy Beth
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2005.
Collection:Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; 6.
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