Intimate encounters
Subtitle: Filipina women remaking rural Japan
By: Lieba Faier.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780520252141; 9780520252158
Subjects: Women -- Japan -- Social conditions; Women -- Philippines -- Social conditions; Women -- Japan -- History; Women domestics -- Japan; Women alien labor -- Japan; Alien labor, Philippine -- Japan
Description: Lieba Faier investigates the processes by which Filipina women who emigrated to work in rural Japan in hostess bars have overcome initial hostilities to become regarded as 'ideal, traditional Japanese brides'. 'Intimate Encounters' shows how changes to culture & identity come about through ordinary interpersonal exchanges.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.