Women on the Verge : Japanese Women, Western Dreams /

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Explores issues of gender, race and national identity in Japan, by taking up for critical analysis an emergent national trend, in which some urban Japanese women turn to the West--through study abroad, work abroad, and romance with Westerners-- in order.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kelsky, Karen, 1964-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2001.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Cultuurcontact.
Internationalisatie.
Vrouwen.
Frau
Soziale Rolle
Nationalbewusstsein
Soziale Situation
Women > Social conditions.
Women > Identity.
Women > Employment.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Feminism & Feminist Theory.
Femmes > Japon > Identite.
Femmes > Japon > Conditions sociales.
Women > Employment > Foreign countries.
Women > Japan > Identity.
Women > Employment > Japan.
Women > Japan > Social conditions.
Japan
Westliche Welt
Japan.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The promised land : a genealogy of female internationalism
  • 2. Internationalism as resistance
  • 3. Capital and the fetish of the white man
  • 4. (Re)flexibility in inflexible places
  • Conclusion : strange bedfellows.

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