The Too-Good Wife: Alcohol, Codependency, and the Politics of Nurturance in Postwar Japan - Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity - Amy Borovoy - Books - University of California Press - 9780520244528 - December 29, 2005
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Social drinking is an accepted aspect of working life in Japan, and women are left to manage their drunken husbands when they return home. This book 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.


251 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released December 29, 2005
ISBN13 9780520244528
Publishers University of California Press
Pages 251
Dimensions 157 × 234 × 19 mm   ·   356 g
Language English  

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