Marriage, aging, and women’s pursuit of commercial sex in Japan
| Autor: | Akiko Takeyama |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Subjectivity
History 020205 medical informatics 05 social sciences Global South Gender studies Human sexuality 02 engineering and technology Adventure Romance humanities Gender Studies 050903 gender studies Anthropology 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Criticism 0509 other social sciences |
| Zdroj: | Sexualities. 24:592-613 |
| ISSN: | 1461-7382 1363-4607 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1363460720973909 |
| Popis: | A number of scholarly works have observed Western and Japanese women travelers who seek romance and adventure with local “beach boys” in the Global South. Despite the important criticism of geopolitical inequality contained in these works, what is missing is how those involved in such commodified sexual relationships make sense of what they do. This essay focuses on how well-heeled Japanese married women, who are concerned with the meaning and effects of aging, pursue a commodified form of sexual intimacy as a means to rediscover their sense of sexual subjectivity. How do they perceive their own involvement in sexual commerce? What kinds of sexual power dynamics do these women and their younger, precarious male partners shape at the intersection of gender, age, and class? How do these women make sense of the apparently masculine act of paying for sex, which requires them to transgress cultural norms of feminine passivity in sexual matters? By posing these questions, this article provides a fine-grained portrayal of a particular kind of feminist agency. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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