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Love in modern Japan: its estrangement from self, sex and society

By Sonia Ryang

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2006
ISBN
041577005X, 9780415770057, 0415479266, 9780415479264, 0203967038, 9780203967034
DOI
10.4324/9780203967034
LCC
GN635.J2R93 2006
Google Books ID
cQPYNUBIIr0C
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1454429 bytes)
Series
Anthropology of Asia
Pages
190\190
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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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