{"product_id":"intimate-encounters-lieba-faier-9780520252158","title":"Intimate Encounters: Filipina Women and the Remaking of Rural Japan","description":"This groundbreaking study explores the recent dramatic changes brought about in Japan by the influx of a non-Japanese population, Filipina brides. Lieba Faier investigates how Filipina women who emigrated to rural Japan to work in hostess bars-where initially they were widely disparaged as prostitutes and foreigners-came to be identified by the local residents as \"ideal, traditional Japanese brides.\"\u003ci\u003eIntimate Encounters\u003c\/i\u003e, an ethnography of cultural encounters, unravels this paradox by examining the everyday relational dynamics that drive these interactions. Faier remaps Japan, the Philippines, and the United States into what she terms a \"zone of encounters,\" showing how the meanings of Filipino and Japanese culture and identity are transformed and how these changes are accomplished through ordinary interpersonal exchanges. \u003ci\u003eIntimate Encounters\u003c\/i\u003e provides an insightful new perspective from which to reconsider national subjectivities amid the increasing pressures of globalization, thereby broadening and deepening our understanding of the larger issues of migration and disapora.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lieba Faier\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520252152\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520252158\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/10\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.80d","brand":"Lieba Faier","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43919946154239,"sku":"9780520252158","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_fb758d4d-10db-42ac-9b8a-04639bfa546a.jpg?v=1680812783","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/intimate-encounters-lieba-faier-9780520252158","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}