Intimate Encounters: Filipina Women and the Remaking of Rural Japan
ISBN-13:
9780520252141
ISBN-10:
0520252144
Edition:
0
Author:
Lieba Faier
Publication date:
2009
Publisher:
University of California Press
Format:
Hardcover
304 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780520252141
ISBN-10:
0520252144
Edition:
0
Author:
Lieba Faier
Publication date:
2009
Publisher:
University of California Press
Format:
Hardcover
304 pages
Summary
Intimate Encounters: Filipina Women and the Remaking of Rural Japan (ISBN-13: 9780520252141 and ISBN-10: 0520252144), written by authors
Lieba Faier, was published by University of California Press in 2009.
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This groundbreaking study explores the recent dramatic changes brought about in Japan by the influx of a non-Japanese population, Filipina brides. Lieba Faier investigates how Filipina women who emigrated to rural Japan to work in hostess bars-where initially they were widely disparaged as prostitutes and foreigners-came to be identified by the local residents as ideal, traditional Japanese brides.”Intimate Encounters, an ethnography of cultural encounters, unravels this paradox by examining the everyday relational dynamics that drive these interactions. Faier remaps Japan, the Philippines, and the United States into what she terms a zone of encounters,” showing how the meanings of Filipino and Japanese culture and identity are transformed and how these changes are accomplished through ordinary interpersonal exchanges. Intimate Encounters provides an insightful new perspective from which to reconsider national subjectivities amid the increasing pressures of globalization, thereby broadening and deepening our understanding of the larger issues of migration and disapora.
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