Intimate encounters : Filipina women and the remaking of rural Japan

Intimate encounters : Filipina women and the remaking of rural Japan /

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 foreign...

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Main Author: Faier, Lieba
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2009.
Subjects:
Women > Japan > Social conditions.
Women > Philippines > Social conditions.
Women > Japan > History.
Women household employees > Japan.
Women foreign workers > Japan.
Foreign workers, Filipino > Japan.
Online Access: Full text (Emmanuel users only)
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Figures of desires
  • pt. 2. Terms of relations.

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