Nightwork Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club

Name: Nightwork Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club
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ISBN: 9780226014876

ISBN-10: 0226014878

ISBN-13: 9780226014876

Edition: 1994

Authors: Anne Allison

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In Nightwork, Anne Allison opens a window onto Japanese corporate culture and gender identities. Allison performed the ritualized tasks of a hostess in one of Tokyo's many "hostess clubs": pouring drinks, lighting cigarettes, and making flattering or titillating conversation with the businessmen who came there on company expense accounts. Her book critically examines how such establishments create bonds among white-collar men and forge a masculine identity that suits the needs of their corporations. Allison describes in detail a typical company outing to such a club--what the men do, how they interact with the hostesses, the role the hostess is expected to play, and the extent to which all…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/28/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 228
Size: 0.65" wide x 0.91" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Anne Allison is the Robert O. Keohane Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Professor of Women's Studies at Duke University.



Acknowledgments


Prelude


Introduction



Ethnography of a Hostess Club



A Type of Place



A Type of Routine



A Type of Woman



Mapping the Nightlife within Cultural Categories Introduction



Social Place and Identity



The Meaning and Place of Work: The Sarariiman



Family and Home



Structure of Japanese Play



Male Play with Money, Women, and Sex



Male Rituals and Masculinity Introduction



Male Bonding



The Mizu Shobai Woman: Constructing Dirtiness and Sex



Impotence as a Sign and Symbol of the Sarariiman


References


Index