{"product_id":"women-on-the-verge-9780822328162","title":"Women on the Verge","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShows how female cosmopolitanism re-contextualises the well-known Western male romance with the Orient: Japanese women are now the agents, narrating their own desires for the \"modern\" West in ways that seem to defy Japanese nationalism as well as long-standing relations of power not only between men and women but between Japan and the West.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Taking cover under her more innocuous theme of the recent internationalization of Japanese women’s lives and careers, Karen Kelsky bluntly asks one of the great taboo questions in Japanese studies: why do so many Japanese women, if given the chance, prefer white husbands over those of their own ethnicity? What are the historical and psychological reasons for a powerful attraction enshrined in popular culture since \u003ci\u003eMadame Butterfly \u003c\/i\u003ebut until now never critically examined, certainly not from a modern feminist perspective? Kelsky’s provocative answers to these questions make her \u003ci\u003eWomen on the Verge\u003c\/i\u003e the first study we have of Japan’s eroticization of the West, in a world already so full of books that would tell us how the West has eroticized Japan.”—John Whittier Treat, Yale University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“\u003c\/b\u003eKelsky insightfully treats desire as a complicated and contradictory complex, something inspired as much by pragmatic as erotic concerns. The narratives she offers are rich and impressive and her skills as a fieldworker as well as command of the ethnographic scene in Japan are striking. This is a compelling, engaging, and important work.”—Anne Allison, author of \u003ci\u003eNightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIllustrations ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments xi\u003cbr\u003e Note on Japanese Names and Terms xiii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Promised Land: A Genealogy of Female Internationalism 35\u003cbr\u003e 2. Internationalism as Resistance 85\u003cbr\u003e 3. Capital and the Fetish of the White Man 133\u003cbr\u003e 4. (Re)flexibility in Inflexible Places 202\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Strange Bedfellows 227\u003cbr\u003e Notes 249\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 259\u003cbr\u003e Index 283","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49083683995991,"sku":"9780822328162","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/women-on-the-verge-9780822328162","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}