Women on the Verge: Japanese Women, Western Dreams (Asia-Pacific) | List Price: $23.95
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Binding: Paperback
The truth may be opposite [Posted on 2005-05-03]
Well, to me, it is more like white men are chasing Japanese women. Many yellow fevers come to Japan or other Asian countries. Why doesn't Kelsky focus on this?
Depends on how you categorize it [Posted on 2006-01-21]
Reviews for this book tend to be All or Nothing. I think it boils down to how you categorize the book. If you view it as a collection of essays with a particular viewpoint and nothing more (as I did), you will probably find it a satisfying read, whether or not you agree with its conclusions. If you approach it as ethnology--a hard, academic tome--then you might find it wanting.
People that don't know anything about Asia should abstain their opinions [Posted on 2006-10-13]
I was born in Asia, and I've lived in Asia for the majority of my life, and I still go there every year.
Everything said in this book is true. Yes, the truth is offensive and ugly, but deal with it.
Hard to rate... [Posted on 2006-10-29]
so I put my rating right in the middle. The previous reviewer hopes that people "who don't know anything about Asia" will abstain from submitting reviews, but ours is a free world so thankfully nobody will listen to him.
Kelsky writes well, which makes for compelling reading here, except in those parts that are loaded with anthropological jargon. Like writers, she has her biases, in her case against white men who have relationships with Japanese women. But her book is hard to put down.
A serious dissapointment [Posted on 2008-04-14]
After reading a few pages of this book from a forgotten website, I wanted nothing else than to read this book so that I would be substantially wiser on the topic of Japanese anthropology. I regret ever going to that website.
This book makes me wish there were spotted owls in every tree, so books like this wouldn't be printed. The author claims that the white man is a subject of idolatry from the Japanese woman, and comes to "the west" for him and equality in the workplace (although workplace equality has mostly taken a backseat).
There is nothing groundbreaking in this book; the only thing that I learned is that absolutely anything can get published. To save you the money, I can tell you that Japanese women, just like any other woman on the face of this planet, want to be treated well. As such, those who can, come to "the west" (USA, UK, Australia, etc) so they can live and work with less repression because of their gender.
The author constantly brings up the topic of how Japanese women fawn of white men because they are white, even though all the examples and evidence in her book says otherwise. The women that the author meets say that they like western men because they can hold a door open and are polite, and not because of the color of their skin.
I hope to have saved you the cost of this book. I have payed too high a price for this book; in money, embarrassment, and mental anguish.
I gave this book one too many stars. How I wish that there were zero and negative ratings.
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