Vai al contenuto principale della pagina

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



(Visualizza in formato marc)    (Visualizza in BIBFRAME)

Autore: Borovoy Amy Beth Visualizza persona
Titolo: The too-good wife [[electronic resource] ] : alcohol, codependency, and the politics of nurturance in postwar Japan / / Amy Borovoy Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2005
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (255 p.)
Disciplina: 362.29/13/0952135
Soggetto topico: Alcoholics - Japan - Tokyo - Family relationships
Alcoholics' spouses - Japan - Tokyo
Parents of drug addicts - Japan - Tokyo
Codependency - Japan - Tokyo
Social work with women - Japan - Tokyo
Sex role - Japan - Tokyo
Wives - Japan - Tokyo
Soggetto non controllato: alcohol
alcoholics
alcoholism
codependency
codependent relationships
cultural issues
destructive behavior
drunkenness
enabling
family life
family relationships
gender issues
gender norms
japan
japanese culture
japanese women
marriage
men and women
mental health issues
middle class
nurturance
politics of marriage
postwar japan
public life
sobriety
social drinking
social order
substance abuse
tokyo
wives and mothers
wives
womens roles
Classificazione: MS 3040
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "Dirty Lukewarm Water" -- 1. Alcoholism and Codependency: New Vocabularies for Unspeakable Problems -- 2. Motherhood, Nurturance, and "Total Care" in Postwar National Ideology -- 3. Good Wives: Negotiating Marital Relationships -- 4. A Success Story -- 5. The Inescapable Discourse of Motherhood -- Conclusion: The Home as a Feminist Dilemma -- Notes -- References -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: 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? The Too-Good Wife follows the experiences of a group of middle-class women in Tokyo who participated in a weekly support meeting for families of substance abusers at a public mental-health clinic. Amy Borovoy deftly analyzes the dilemmas of being female in modern Japan and the grace with which women struggle within a system that supports wives and mothers but thwarts their attempts to find fulfillment outside the family. The central concerns of the book reach beyond the problem of alcoholism to examine the women's own processes of self-reflection and criticism and the deeper fissures and asymmetries that undergird Japanese productivity and social order.
Titolo autorizzato: The too-good wife  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 9786612358098
1-4237-3146-8
1-282-35809-X
0-520-93868-2
1-59875-808-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910783665903321
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui
Serie: Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; ; 6.