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Japan, Alcoholism, and Masculinity - Suffering Sobriety in Tokyo (Paperback)
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Japan, Alcoholism, and Masculinity - Suffering Sobriety in Tokyo (Paperback)
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Depictions of an alcohol-saturated Japan populated by intoxicated
salarymen, beer dispensing vending machines, and a generally
tolerant approach to public drunkenness, typify domestic and
international perceptions of Japanese drinking. Even the popular
definitions of Japanese masculinity are interwoven with accounts of
personal alcohol consumption in public settings; gender norms that
exclude and marginalize the alcoholic. And yet the alcoholic also
exists in Japan, and exists in a manner revealing of the dominant
processes by which alcoholism and addiction are globally
influenced, understood, and classified. As such, this book examines
the ways in which alcoholism is understood, accepted, and taken on
as an influential and lived aspect of identity among Japanese men.
At the most general level, it explores how a subjective idea comes
to be regarded as an objective and unassailable fact. Here such a
process concerns how the culturally and temporally specific
treatment methodology of Alcoholics Anonymous, upon which much of
Japan's other major sobriety association, Danshukai, is also based,
has come to be the approach in Japan to diagnosing, treating, and
structuring alcoholism as an aspect of individual identity. In
particular, the gendered consequences, how this process transpires
or is resisted by Japanese men, are considered, as they offer
substantial insight into how categories of illness and disease are
created, particularly the ramifications of dominant forms of such
categorizations across increasingly porous cultural borders.
Ramifications that become starkly obvious when Japan's persistent
connection between notions of masculinity and alcohol consumption
are considered from the perspective of the sober alcoholic and
sobriety group member.
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