Allison Alexy
Biographic Data
| ID | 97917 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Allison Alexy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Allison |
| FAMILY NAME | Alexy |
| SIGNATURE | ALEXY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Involuntary Consent: The Illusion of Choice in Japan's Adult Video Industry
I can't remember a time when I have more wanted to recommend a single book to everyone I know. You might think that an ethnography of Japan's pornography industry would be a niche topic, or one of interest to only gender scholars, media scholars, or fans. But Akiko Takeyama's Involuntary Consent is instead deeply relatable and fundamentally connected to broad questions that exist well beyond pornography, including the nature of consent, extractiv…
Alice in Japanese Wonderlands: Translation, Adaptation, Mediation
The masculinization of deprivation: Transformations in industrial and labor patterns and the emergence of the Men’s Crisis in Japan
A movement for gender equality, begun in earnest in the 1970s, has prompted fundamental changes to work and family lives in Japan. Despite this, discussions about shifting gender structures have frequently focused on women, leaving men’s gender issues in the shadows. This article explores the last 50 years of labor and family changes from a gendered perspective, and the major historical and civilizational shifts behind those changing patterns. Fo…
Gender and the Koseki in Contemporary Japan: Surname, Power, and Privilege
The most powerful technology is often invisible. Certainly, this is true for things like jet engines, which are clearly present but not quite intelligible to most passengers. But it also applies to social norms and policies that hegemonically wriggle into our lives and shape choices to such an extent that they become invisible. In social terms, the most powerful technology shapes human lives so much that it comes to seem natural and inevitable, e…
Children and Law in the Shadows: Legal Ideologies and Personal Strategies in Response to Parental Abductions in Japan
In contemporary Japan, police and law enforcement are often reluctant to assist in family conflicts. In practice, law enforcement and the family law system offer little assistance for people struggling with family conflicts in particular, following the logic that “law does not belong in families.” This article examines the informal, familial, financial, and social means people use to solve what might be called “family problems” when formal legal …
Intimate Disconnections: Divorce and the Romance of Independence in Contemporary Japan
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…
Pop Empires: Transnational and Diasporic Flows of India and Korea
Puppets, Gods, and Brands: Theorizing the Age of Animation from Taiwan
The early twenty-first century has seen an explosion of animation. Cartoon characters are everywhere—in cinema, television, and video games and as brand logos. There are new technological objects that seem to have lives of their own—from Facebook algorithms that suggest products for us to buy to robots that respond to human facial expressions. The ubiquity of animation is not a trivial side-effect of the development of digital technologies and th…
Animated Encounters: Transnational Movements of Chinese Animation, 1940s–1970s
China's role in the history of world animation has been trivialized or largely forgotten. In Animated Encounters Daisy Yan Du addresses this omission in her study of Chinese animation and its engagement with international forces during its formative period, the 1940s-1970s. She introduces readers to transnational movements in early Chinese animation, tracing the involvement of Japanese, Soviet, American, Taiwanese, and China's ethnic minorities, …
Pop Empires: Transnational and Diasporic Flows of India and Korea
Intimate Japan: Ethnographies of Closeness and Conflict
How do couples build intimacy in an era that valorizes independence and self-responsibility? How can a man be a good husband when full-time jobs are scarce? How can unmarried women find fulfillment and recognition outside of normative relationships? How can a person express their sexuality when there is no terminology that feels right? In contemporary Japan, broad social transformations are reflected and refracted in changing intimate relationshi…
Home and Family in Japan: Continuity and Transformation
The Japanese Family in Transition: From the Professional Housewife Ideal to the Dilemmas of Choice
In 1978, Suzanne Hall Vogel published a short but powerful description of the life of an average Japanese housewife, Professional Housewife: The Career of Urban Middle Class Japanese Woman (Vogel 1978). In that article, one of the earliest English language resources describing the soon-to-be ubiquitous character of the Japanese housewife, Vogel argues that housewives are more skilled, respected, and powerful than they might seem at first glance. …
Women and Family in Contemporary Japan
Tough Choices: Bearing an Illegitmate Child in Contemporary Japan
Intimate Dependence and its Risks in Neoliberal Japan
This paper examines how contemporary Japanese women are negotiating neoliberal standards for independence in relation to cultural norms and personal desires that encourage dependence in romantic relationships. In recent decades, neoliberal standards of maturity have become increasingly visible in Japan, and many marital counselors offer advice suggesting that independent, atomized selves are a key to happiness. Yet many women express ambivalence …
Puppets, Gods, and Brands: Theorizing the Age of Animation from Taiwan
The early twenty-first century has seen an explosion of animation. Cartoon characters are everywhere—in cinema, television, and video games and as brand logos. There are new technological objects that seem to have lives of their own—from Facebook algorithms that suggest products for us to buy to robots that respond to human facial expressions. The ubiquity of animation is not a trivial side-effect of the development of digital technologies and th…
Intimate Dependence and its Risks in Neoliberal Japan
This paper examines how contemporary Japanese women are negotiating neoliberal standards for independence in relation to cultural norms and personal desires that encourage dependence in romantic relationships. In recent decades, neoliberal standards of maturity have become increasingly visible in Japan, and many marital counselors offer advice suggesting that independent, atomized selves are a key to happiness. Yet many women express ambivalence …
Animated Encounters: Transnational Movements of Chinese Animation, 1940s–1970s
China's role in the history of world animation has been trivialized or largely forgotten. In Animated Encounters Daisy Yan Du addresses this omission in her study of Chinese animation and its engagement with international forces during its formative period, the 1940s-1970s. She introduces readers to transnational movements in early Chinese animation, tracing the involvement of Japanese, Soviet, American, Taiwanese, and China's ethnic minorities, …
The masculinization of deprivation: Transformations in industrial and labor patterns and the emergence of the Men’s Crisis in Japan
A movement for gender equality, begun in earnest in the 1970s, has prompted fundamental changes to work and family lives in Japan. Despite this, discussions about shifting gender structures have frequently focused on women, leaving men’s gender issues in the shadows. This article explores the last 50 years of labor and family changes from a gendered perspective, and the major historical and civilizational shifts behind those changing patterns. Fo…
Women and Family in Contemporary Japan
Tough Choices: Bearing an Illegitmate Child in Contemporary Japan
Intimate Dependence and its Risks in Neoliberal Japan
This paper examines how contemporary Japanese women are negotiating neoliberal standards for independence in relation to cultural norms and personal desires that encourage dependence in romantic relationships. In recent decades, neoliberal standards of maturity have become increasingly visible in Japan, and many marital counselors offer advice suggesting that independent, atomized selves are a key to happiness. Yet many women express ambivalence …
The Japanese Family in Transition: From the Professional Housewife Ideal to the Dilemmas of Choice
In 1978, Suzanne Hall Vogel published a short but powerful description of the life of an average Japanese housewife, Professional Housewife: The Career of Urban Middle Class Japanese Woman (Vogel 1978). In that article, one of the earliest English language resources describing the soon-to-be ubiquitous character of the Japanese housewife, Vogel argues that housewives are more skilled, respected, and powerful than they might seem at first glance. …
Home and Family in Japan: Continuity and Transformation
Intimate Japan: Ethnographies of Closeness and Conflict
How do couples build intimacy in an era that valorizes independence and self-responsibility? How can a man be a good husband when full-time jobs are scarce? How can unmarried women find fulfillment and recognition outside of normative relationships? How can a person express their sexuality when there is no terminology that feels right? In contemporary Japan, broad social transformations are reflected and refracted in changing intimate relationshi…
Pop Empires: Transnational and Diasporic Flows of India and Korea
Puppets, Gods, and Brands: Theorizing the Age of Animation from Taiwan
The early twenty-first century has seen an explosion of animation. Cartoon characters are everywhere—in cinema, television, and video games and as brand logos. There are new technological objects that seem to have lives of their own—from Facebook algorithms that suggest products for us to buy to robots that respond to human facial expressions. The ubiquity of animation is not a trivial side-effect of the development of digital technologies and th…
Animated Encounters: Transnational Movements of Chinese Animation, 1940s–1970s
China's role in the history of world animation has been trivialized or largely forgotten. In Animated Encounters Daisy Yan Du addresses this omission in her study of Chinese animation and its engagement with international forces during its formative period, the 1940s-1970s. She introduces readers to transnational movements in early Chinese animation, tracing the involvement of Japanese, Soviet, American, Taiwanese, and China's ethnic minorities, …
Pop Empires: Transnational and Diasporic Flows of India and Korea
Intimate Disconnections: Divorce and the Romance of Independence in Contemporary Japan
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…
Children and Law in the Shadows: Legal Ideologies and Personal Strategies in Response to Parental Abductions in Japan
In contemporary Japan, police and law enforcement are often reluctant to assist in family conflicts. In practice, law enforcement and the family law system offer little assistance for people struggling with family conflicts in particular, following the logic that “law does not belong in families.” This article examines the informal, familial, financial, and social means people use to solve what might be called “family problems” when formal legal …
Gender and the Koseki in Contemporary Japan: Surname, Power, and Privilege
The most powerful technology is often invisible. Certainly, this is true for things like jet engines, which are clearly present but not quite intelligible to most passengers. But it also applies to social norms and policies that hegemonically wriggle into our lives and shape choices to such an extent that they become invisible. In social terms, the most powerful technology shapes human lives so much that it comes to seem natural and inevitable, e…
Alice in Japanese Wonderlands: Translation, Adaptation, Mediation
The masculinization of deprivation: Transformations in industrial and labor patterns and the emergence of the Men’s Crisis in Japan
A movement for gender equality, begun in earnest in the 1970s, has prompted fundamental changes to work and family lives in Japan. Despite this, discussions about shifting gender structures have frequently focused on women, leaving men’s gender issues in the shadows. This article explores the last 50 years of labor and family changes from a gendered perspective, and the major historical and civilizational shifts behind those changing patterns. Fo…
Involuntary Consent: The Illusion of Choice in Japan's Adult Video Industry
I can't remember a time when I have more wanted to recommend a single book to everyone I know. You might think that an ethnography of Japan's pornography industry would be a niche topic, or one of interest to only gender scholars, media scholars, or fans. But Akiko Takeyama's Involuntary Consent is instead deeply relatable and fundamentally connected to broad questions that exist well beyond pornography, including the nature of consent, extractiv…
Sociology (10 works) · Japanese History and Culture (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Motion pictures (3 works)