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Author:

Borovoy, Amy Beth.

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of California Press,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

xvii, 234 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Alcoholics--Tokyo--Tokyo--Family relationships.
Alcoholics' spouses--Tokyo.--Tokyo.
Parents of drug addicts--Tokyo.--Tokyo.
Codependency--Tokyo.--Tokyo.
Social work with women--Tokyo.--Tokyo.
Sex role--Tokyo.--Tokyo.
Wives--Tokyo.--Tokyo.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-218) and index.

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.

Series:

Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; 6

ISBN:

9780520244528 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0520244524 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780520244511 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520244516 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)57285881

LCCN:

2004029705

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)