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Becoming a Local Woman: The Logic of Ethno-Gendered Selves of Japanese Women

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Inquiring into the reasons why these Japanese women left Japan and consequently became marriage migrants in Australia. this chapter investigates the ways in which they, for better or worse, perceive their Australian life under the geographic conditions referred to previously..

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    This anecdote may signify a typical sense of these women of hyper-consumer society : even nappies are given sign values in their cultural context.

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    Similar discussions of women and their outgoing social practices through the engagement of their domestic duties of motherhood can be found in the Western context. See the studies of Deborah Chambers (1997), Isabel Dyck (1989), Geraldine Pratt (2003) and Susan Thompson (1994).

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Hamano, T. (2019). Becoming a Local Woman: The Logic of Ethno-Gendered Selves of Japanese Women. In: Marriage Migrants of Japanese Women in Australia. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7848-5_6

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