Over the past few decades, many young Japanese women have emerged
as Japan's most enthusiastic "internationalists," investing in
study or work abroad, or in romance with Western men as
opportunities to circumvent what they consider their country's
oppressive corporate and family structures. Drawing on a rich
supply of autobiographical narratives, as well as literary and
cultural texts, Karen Kelsky situates this phenomenon against a
backdrop of profound social change in Japan and""within an
intricate network of larger global forces.
In exploring the promises, limitations, and contradictions of
these "occidental longings," "Women on the Verge" exposes the
racial and erotic politics of transnational mobility. Kelsky shows
how female cosmopolitanism recontextualizes the well-known Western
male romance with the Orient: Japanese women are now the agents,
narrating their own desires for the "modern" West in ways that seem
to defy Japanese nationalism as well as long-standing relations of
power not only between men and women but between Japan and the
West. While transnational movement is not available to all Japanese
women, Kelsky shows that the desire for the foreign permeates many
Japanese women's lives. She also reveals how this feminine
allegiance to the West--and particularly to white men--can impose
its own unanticipated hegemonies of race, sexuality, and capital.
Combining ethnography and literary analysis, and bridging
anthropology and cultural studies, "Women on the Verge" will also
appeal to students and scholars of Japan studies, feminism, and
global culture.
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