Intimate Disconnections: Divorce and the Romance of Independence in Contemporary Japan

by Allison Alexy

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 to friends' and relatives' unsolicited advice. In Intimate Disconnections, Allison Alexy tells the fascinating story of the changing norms surrounding...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022669965X
• ISBN13: 9780226699653
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"