Intimate encounters : Filipina women and the remaking of rural Japan /
Faier, Lieba.
Intimate encounters : Filipina women and the remaking of rural Japan / Lieba Faier. - Berkeley : University of California Press, (c)2009. - 1 online resource (xv, 280 pages) -
Includes bibliographies and index.
part 1. Figures of desires -- part 2. Terms of relations.
This 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. --From publisher's description
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
9780520944596 9781461957447 9781283277204 9786613277206 6613277207
2021696626
GBA970405 bnb
015327709 Uk
Women--Social conditions.--Japan
Women--Social conditions.--Philippines
Women--History.--Japan
Women household employees--Japan.
Women foreign workers--Japan.
Foreign workers, Filipino--Japan.
Electronic Books.
HQ1762 / .I585 2009
Intimate encounters : Filipina women and the remaking of rural Japan / Lieba Faier. - Berkeley : University of California Press, (c)2009. - 1 online resource (xv, 280 pages) -
Includes bibliographies and index.
part 1. Figures of desires -- part 2. Terms of relations.
This 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. --From publisher's description
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
9780520944596 9781461957447 9781283277204 9786613277206 6613277207
2021696626
GBA970405 bnb
015327709 Uk
Women--Social conditions.--Japan
Women--Social conditions.--Philippines
Women--History.--Japan
Women household employees--Japan.
Women foreign workers--Japan.
Foreign workers, Filipino--Japan.
Electronic Books.
HQ1762 / .I585 2009