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Intimate Disconnections Divorce and the Romance of Independence in Contemporary Japan

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In many ways, divorce is a quintessentially personal decision-the choice to leave a marriage that causes harm or feels unfulfilling to the two people involved. But anyone who has gone through a divorce knows the additional public dimensions of breaking up, from intense shame and societal criticism t...

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Main Author: Alexy, Allison (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Chicago University of Chicago Press 2020
Subjects:
Society & culture: general
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
Sociology: birth
divorce
romance
marriage
love
intimacy
japan
trust
relationships
commitment
shame
social norms
separation
women
gender
feminism
asia
nonfiction
reference
freedom
anxiety
family
relationality
empowerment
late life
aging
anthropology
sociology
jukunen rikon
labor market
dependence
self interest
solitude
happiness
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