The Too-Good Wife: Alcohol, Codependency, and the Politics of Nurturance in Postwar Japan by Amy Borovoy

Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity #6

The Too-Good Wife: Alcohol, Codependency, and the Politics of Nurturance in Postwar Japan

Amy Borovoy

234 pages paperback 2005

2 editions

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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 the men return home, restoring them to sobriety for the next day of work. In attempting to cope with their husbands' alcoholis...

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