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Polite Lies: On Being a Woman Caught Between Cultures

Polite Lies: On Being a Woman Caught Between Cultures - Paperback

by Kyoko Mori
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Availability:In StockContributor:Kyoko MoriPublish date:1999-04-06Pages:274
Language:EnglishPublisher:Random House Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780449004289ISBN-10:449004287UPC:9780449004289Book Category:Social Science, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Minority Studies, Social Scientists & Psychologists, MemoirsAward:1999 Literary Award Nominee - Art of the Memoir AwardSize:8.20 x 5.50 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCXH8CASDV
Twelve penetrating, painful essays explore the author's codes of silence, deference, and expression that govern Japanese and American women's lives and the images of the body that make sex seem foreign to Japanese women and ever-present to Americans.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Random House Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780449004289ISBN-10:449004287UPC:9780449004289Book Category:Social Science, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Minority Studies, Social Scientists & Psychologists, MemoirsAward:1999 Literary Award Nominee - Art of the Memoir AwardSize:8.20 x 5.50 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCXH8CASDV
Kyoko Mori is the author of three nonfiction books: Yarn: Remembering the Way Home; Polite Lies: On Being a Woman Caught Between Cultures; and The Dream of Water. Mori's essay "Yarn" was selected for The Best American Essays 2004 and Polite Lies was shortlisted for PEN's Martha Albrand Nonfiction Award.
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

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🏆 1999 Literary Award Nominee - Art of the Memoir Award

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