Women on the verge : Japanese women, Western dreams
Drawing on a supply of autobiographical narratives, as well as literary and cultural texts, this title situates this phenomenon against a backdrop of profound social change in Japan and within an intricate network of larger global forces. It exposes the racial and erotic politics of trans-national mobility.
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Illustrations ixAcknowledgments xiNote on Japanese Names and Terms xiiiIntroduction 11. The Promised Land: A Genealogy of Female Internationalism 352. Internationalism as Resistance 853. Capital and the Fetish of the White Man 1334. (Re)flexibility in Inflexible Places 202Conclusion: Strange Bedfellows 227Notes 249Bibliography 259Index 283