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Love in Modern Japan: Its Estrangement from Self, Sex and Society

Love in Modern Japan: Its Estrangement from Self, Sex and Society

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Series: Anthropology of Asia

AnthropologyGeneral Gender StudiesGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 0415479266
ISBN13: 9780415479264
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 1 2008
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.41 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This compelling and controversial book places the concept of love in both a social and historical context. Taking an approach in which state formation and vicissitude of power are explicitly taken into account in the discussion of intimacy and love, the author demonstrates that love as idealization and love as sexuality must be kept analytically separate. Chapters include discussions on sexualized rituals and fertility festivals, the murder case of Abe Sada, pure love in Miko and Mako's tragedy and the 1990s phenomenon of 'enjokosai' or aid-date. Combining ethnographic, theoretical and archival research, this text will appeal to scholars of Japanese anthropology, feminist anthropology and gender studies alike.

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