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Staged Seduction: Selling Dreams in a Tokyo Host Club
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 fo... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars’ Resistance and Renewal in the Academy
by Grace J. Yoo • Shirley Hune • Robyn Magalit Rodriguez • Jane Junn • Akiko Takeyama • W P • Kieu Linh Valverde • Wei Ming Dariotis • Eliza Noh • Mai’a K. Cross • Cara Maffini Pham • Melody Yee • Jing Mai • Shannon Deloso • Kaozong N. Mouavangsou • Cindy Nhi Huynh • Rani Neutill • Brett J. Esaki • Melissa-Ann Nievera-Lozano • Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales • Genevieve Erin O’BrienAsian American women scholars experience shockingly low rates of tenure and promotion because of the particular ways they are marginalized by the intersectionalities of race and gender in academia. Although Asian American studies critics have long since debunked the model minority myth that construc... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020