Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/445lMjn The Too-Good Wife Alcohol, Codependency, and the Politics of Nurturance in Postwar Japan By: Amy Borovoy Publisher: University of California Press Print ISBN: 9780520244511, 0520244516 eText ISBN: 9780520938687, 0520938682 Edition: 1st Pages: 251 Copyright year: 2005 Format: PDF Available from $ 34.95 USD SKU 9780520938687 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' alcoholism, the women face a profound cultural dilemma: when does the nurturing behavior expected of a good wife and mother become part of a pattern of behavior that is actually destructive? How does the celebration of nurturance and dependency mask the exploitative aspects not just of family life but also of public life in Japan? The Too-Good Wife 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. Amy Borovoy deftly analyzes the dilemmas of being female in modern Japan and the grace with which women struggle within a system that supports wives and mothers but thwarts their attempts to find fulfillment outside the family. The central concerns of the book reach beyond the problem of alcoholism to examine the women's own processes of self-reflection and criticism and the deeper fissures and asymmetries that undergird Japanese productivity and social order. Additional ISBNs 9780520244528, 0520244524
