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Nightwork: sexuality, pleasure, and corporate masculinity in a Tokyo hostess club

Anne Allison 1994 © University of Chicago Press
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ISBN(s)
  • 9780226014876 (paper)
  • 9780226014852 (hardcover)
  • 9780226014883 (ebook)
Subject
  • Women's Studies
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments (page xi)
  • Prelude (page 1)
  • Introduction (page 7)
  • Part One Ethnography of a Hostess Club (page 31)
    • Chapter One A Type of Place (page 33)
    • Chapter Two A Type of Routine (page 42)
    • Chapter Three A Type of Woman (page 57)
  • Part Two Mapping the Nightlife within Cultural Categories (page 77)
    • Introduction (page 79)
    • Chapter Four Social Place and Identity (page 84)
    • Chapter Five The Meaning and Place of Work: The Sarariiman (page 91)
    • Chapter Six Family and Home (page 102)
    • Chapter Seven Structure of Japanese Play (page 114)
    • Chapter Eight Male Play with Money, Women, and Sex (page 124)
  • Part Three Male Rituals and Masculinity (page 143)
    • Introduction (page 145)
    • Chapter Nine Male Bonding (page 151)
    • Chapter Ten The Mizu Shōbai Woman: Constructing Dirtiness and Sex (page 168)
    • Chapter Eleven Impotence as a Sign and Symbol of the Sarariiman (page 188)
  • References (page 205)
  • Index (page 211)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JAS 54.1 (Feb. 1995): 213-214 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2058987
AANTH 98.1 (Mar. 1996): 206 http://www.jstor.org/stable/683001
GS 10.2 (Apr. 1996): 215-216 http://www.jstor.org/stable/189836
AJS 100.4 (Jan. 1995): 1071-1073 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2782170
JJS 21.2 (Summer 1995): 451-456 http://www.jstor.org/stable/133020
SIG 22.3 (Spring 1997): 759-761 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3175261
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