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The too-good wife : alcohol, codependency, and the politics of nurturance in postwar Japan / Amy Borovoy.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; 6.Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2005.Description: 1 online resource (1 volume)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520938687
  • 0520938682
  • 1423731468
  • 9781423731467
  • 9786612358098
  • 6612358092
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Too-good wife.DDC classification:
  • 362.29/13/0952135 22
LOC classification:
  • HV5132 .B67 2005eb
Other classification:
  • MS 3040
  • MS 6410
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- Alcoholism and co-dependency -- Motherhood, nurturance, and "total care" in postwar national ideology -- Good wives -- A success story -- The inescapable discourse of motherhood -- Conclusion: Impasses of Japanese feminism.
Summary: Social drinking is an accepted aspect of working life in Japan, and women are left to manage their drunken husbands when the men return home, restoring them to sobriety for the next day of work. In attempting to cope with their husbands' alcoholism, the women face a profound cultural dilemma: when does the nurturing behavior expected of a good wife and mother become part of a pattern of behavior that is actually destructive? How does the celebration of nurturance and dependency mask the exploitative aspects not just of family life but also of public life in Japan?
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Alcoholism and co-dependency -- Motherhood, nurturance, and "total care" in postwar national ideology -- Good wives -- A success story -- The inescapable discourse of motherhood -- Conclusion: Impasses of Japanese feminism.

Social drinking is an accepted aspect of working life in Japan, and women are left to manage their drunken husbands when the men return home, restoring them to sobriety for the next day of work. In attempting to cope with their husbands' alcoholism, the women face a profound cultural dilemma: when does the nurturing behavior expected of a good wife and mother become part of a pattern of behavior that is actually destructive? How does the celebration of nurturance and dependency mask the exploitative aspects not just of family life but also of public life in Japan?

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English.

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