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Polite Lies: On Being a Woman Caught Between Cultures Paperback - 1999
by Mori, Kyoko
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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.
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- Title Polite Lies: On Being a Woman Caught Between Cultures
- Author Mori, Kyoko
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Fawcett Edit
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Ballantine Books, New York
- Date April 6, 1999
- Features Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 471563
- ISBN 9780449004289 / 0449004287
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.4 in (20.83 x 13.97 x 1.02 cm)
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: Asian - General
- Ethnic Orientation: Asian - Japanese
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98096969
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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First line
When my third grade teacher told us that the universe was infinite and endless, I wrote down her words in my notebook, but I did not believe her.
From the jacket flap
In this powerful, exquisitely crafted book, Kyoko Mori delves into her dual heritage with a rare honesty that is both graceful and stirring. From her unhappy childhood in Japan, weighted by a troubled family and a constricting culture, to the American Midwest, where she found herself free to speak as a strong-minded independent woman, though still an outsider, Mori explores the different codes of silence, deference, and expression that govern Japanese and American women's lives: the ties that bind us to family and the lies that keep us apart; the rituals of mourning that give us the courage to accept death; the images of the body that make sex seem foreign to Japanese women and second nature to Americans. In the sensitive hands of this compelling writer, one woman's life becomes the mirror of two profoundly different societies.