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"[O]ne becomes all too easily engaged with the lives of the individuals [Takeyama] introduces. This is not because they are 'fascinating' subjects whose outlandish lifestyles and fantastically salacious pursuits entertain, but instead it has much to do with the affective ethnographic method Takeyama actively sought to employThis non-moralistic, but uncondescendingly emphatic, rendition of her fieldwork and interviews further invites discussion on how anthropologists can try to reproduce what they come to know in, of, and via themselves while avoiding the pitfalls of vanity, the need for unquestioned surface level political correctness and moral high-horsery"--Mira Malick, Social Science Japan Journal "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 * "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 Parrenas * University of Southern California, author of Illicit Flirtations: Labor, Migration and Sex Trafficking in Tokyo * "Akiko Takeyama's Staged Seduction is a remarkable entry in the surprisingly crowded field of ethnographic portraits of the sex/companion industries in Asia...[A]s a work that sheds light on negotiations between commercial pressure, sexual desire, and fantasy, Staged Seduction focuses unusually on male hosts and their female clients in Tokyo. Although the book draws, as might be expected, from scholarship on gender relations in contemporary Japan, Takeyama's real goal is to contribute to pressing debates in anthropology and social theory regarding temporality, affective labour, and the cultural consequences of neoliberalism." -- David Leheny * Pacific Affairs * "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 * "Staged Seductions is a highly enjoyable and, at times, troubling read, resulting in a wonderful example of an affective ethnography. Takeyama provides deep insights into the complex ways that affects are implicated in, and constitutive of, the production of neoliberal subjectivities."--Emma E. Cook, Royal Anthropological Institute "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 *
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In the host clubs of Tokyo's Kabuki-chō 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.
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- VerlagStanford University Press
- Erscheinungsdatum2016
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- ISBN 13 9780804798549
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This manuscript provides a window into the Japanese nighttime bars where male hosts seduce their female clients and entice them to spend money. It attempts to answer questions such as: what happens when women are the financial providers and men are the paid seducers How do they communicate when women want to be seduced but cannot say so What is it like to be in a commodified form of romance Takeyama investigates various aspects of the host clubs including the host club as workplace, the hosts themselves, the women who frequent host clubs, the club managers, and the ethics of host club deception. Ultimately, the book provides readers with an extraordinary look into the dynamics of seduction, and the broader dynamics of the contemporary Japanese political economy. Artikel-Nr. 9780804798549
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Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. Über den AutorAkiko Takeyama is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at University of Kansas.KlappentextrnrnIn the host clubs of Tokyo s Kabuki-cho red-light dist. Artikel-Nr. 595016866
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