Staged Seduction: Selling Dreams in a Tokyo Host Club
Autor Akiko Takeyamaen Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 mar 2016
In the host clubs of Tokyo's Kabuki-cho red-light district, ambitious young men seek their fortunes by selling love, romance, companionship, and sometimes sex to female consumers for exorbitant sums of money. Staged Seduction reveals a world where all intimacies and feigned feelings are fair game for the hosts who employ feathered bangs, polished nails, fine European suits, and the sensitivity of the finest salesmen to create a fantasy for wealthy women seeking an escape from the everyday.
Akiko Takeyama's investigation of this beguiling underground "love business" provides an intimate window into Japanese host clubs and the lives of hosts, clients, club owners, and managers. The club is a place where fantasies are pursued and the art of seduction isn't merely about romance; a complex set of transactions emerges. Like a casino of love, the host club is a site of desperation, aspiration, and hope, in which both hosts and clients are eager to roll the dice. Takeyama reveals the aspirational mode not only of the host club, but also of a Japanese society built on the commercialization of aspiration, seducing its citizens out of the present and into a future where hopes and dreams are imaginable—and billions of dollars can be made.
Akiko Takeyama's investigation of this beguiling underground "love business" provides an intimate window into Japanese host clubs and the lives of hosts, clients, club owners, and managers. The club is a place where fantasies are pursued and the art of seduction isn't merely about romance; a complex set of transactions emerges. Like a casino of love, the host club is a site of desperation, aspiration, and hope, in which both hosts and clients are eager to roll the dice. Takeyama reveals the aspirational mode not only of the host club, but also of a Japanese society built on the commercialization of aspiration, seducing its citizens out of the present and into a future where hopes and dreams are imaginable—and billions of dollars can be made.
| Toate formatele și edițiile | Preț | Express |
|---|---|---|
| Paperback (1) | 154.75 lei 3-5 săpt. | |
| Stanford University Press – 8 mar 2016 | 154.75 lei 3-5 săpt. | |
| Hardback (1) | 598.42 lei 6-8 săpt. | |
| Stanford University Press – 8 mar 2016 | 598.42 lei 6-8 săpt. |
Preț: 154.75 lei
Nou
Puncte Express: 232
Preț estimativ în valută:
29.61€ • 31.06$ • 24.69£
29.61€ • 31.06$ • 24.69£
Carte disponibilă
Livrare economică 17-31 decembrie
Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76
Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780804798549
ISBN-10: 0804798540
Pagini: 248
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Stanford University Press
Colecția Stanford University Press
ISBN-10: 0804798540
Pagini: 248
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Stanford University Press
Colecția Stanford University Press
V-ar putea interesa
-
-31%Preț: 593.24 lei862.22 lei -
Personality: What makes you the way you areDaniel Nettle-28%Preț: 48.25 lei66.56 lei -
The Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature and the Origins of WarDavid Livingstone SmithPreț: 103.51 lei -
The Dance of Life: The Other Dimension of TimeEdward T. HallPreț: 97.28 lei -
Guns, Germs, and Steel – The Fates of Human SocietiesJared DiamondPreț: 178.64 lei -
Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and IdentityEtienne WengerPreț: 311.65 lei -
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-eye View of the WorldMichael Pollan-34%Preț: 62.25 lei94.44 lei -
Preț: 168.50 lei -
TotemismClaude Levi-StraussPreț: 84.88 lei -
-10%Preț: 255.83 lei284.97 lei -
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four MealsMichael PollanPreț: 161.04 lei -
-14%Preț: 165.39 lei192.72 lei -
Imagining Siam: A Travellers' Literary Guide to ThailandCaron Eastgate Dann-14%Preț: 178.94 lei208.33 lei
Recenzii
"An exquisite ethnography of host clubs in Tokyo, Staged Seduction describes the daily trials of commodified romance for buyers and sellers. It provides a cultural kaleidoscope into the lives of youth confronting a precarious labor market, women and their aging insecurities, and consumption in late capitalism."—Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, University of Southern California, author of Illicit Flirtations: Labor, Migration and Sex Trafficking in Tokyo
"Seductions performed by male hosts, purchased by female customers, and entwined around money and desire: this is the terrain of Akiko Takeyama's fascinating book. Set in neoliberal Japan when the future is fraught, Staged Seduction captures the anxieties of the times in an affective ethnography at once unsettling and bold."—Anne Allison, Duke University
"Staged Seduction is a compelling ethnographic study of commodified romance, aspiration, and desire in neoliberal Japan. With riveting stories of male hosts and their female clients, Takeyama elegantly renders the complex dance of sentiments, interests and affects within an atmosphere of inequality and veiled transactions. This influential work will define future research in affect theory, gender studies and the anthropology of East Asia."—Martin F. Manalansan IV, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
"These is so much of interest in Staged Seduction, which will appeal on a number of levels. Takeyama argues that host clubs are emblematic of a neoliberal, post-industrial Tokyo: see what you think. Her study certainly offers a fascinating insight into a recently greatly expanded part of its nightlife."—Joy Hendry, Times Higher Education
Notă biografică
Akiko Takeyama is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at University of Kansas.