Women on the Verge: Japanese Women, Western Dreams (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society)

"Kelsky insightfully treats desire as a complicated and contradictory complex, something inspired as much by pragmatic as erotic concerns. The narratives she offers are rich and impressive and her skills as a fieldworker as well as command of the ethnographic scene in Japan are striking. This is a compelling, engaging, and important work."-Anne Allison, author ofNightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess ClubKaren Kelsky is the author of 'Women on the Verge: Japanese Women, Western Dreams (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society)', published 2001 under ISBN 9780822328056 and ISBN 0822328054.