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Staged Seduction: Selling Dreams in a Tokyo Host Club
In the host clubs of Tokyo's Kabuki-cho red-light district, ambitious young men seek their fortunes by selling love, romance, companionship, and sometimes sex to female consumers for exorbitant sums of money. Staged Seduction reveals a world where all intimacies and feigned feelings are fair game fo... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Opting Out: Women Messing with Marriage around the World (Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts)
by Laura C. Nelson • Sarah Lamb • Carla Freeman • Akiko Takeyama • Jacqueline Solway • Dinah Hannaford • Julia Pauli • Melanie A. Medeiros • Joanna Davidson • Kimberly Walters • Brady G'Sell • Carla JonesWomen around the world are opting out of marriage. Through nuanced ethnographic accounts of the ways that women are moving the needle on marital norms and practices, Opting Out reveals the conditions that make this widespread phenomenon possible in places where marriage has long been obligatory. Eac... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2023 -
Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars’ Resistance and Renewal in the Academy
by Grace J. Yoo • Shirley Hune • Robyn Magalit Rodriguez • Jane Junn • Akiko Takeyama • W P • Kieu Linh Valverde • Wei Ming Dariotis • Eliza Noh • Mai’a K. Cross • Cara Maffini Pham • Melody Yee • Jing Mai • Shannon Deloso • Kaozong N. Mouavangsou • Cindy Nhi Huynh • Rani Neutill • Brett J. Esaki • Melissa-Ann Nievera-Lozano • Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales • Genevieve Erin O’BrienAsian American women scholars experience shockingly low rates of tenure and promotion because of the particular ways they are marginalized by the intersectionalities of race and gender in academia. Although Asian American studies critics have long since debunked the model minority myth that construc... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020