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Susan J. Pharr
Susan J. Pharr is an author whose work focuses on Japanese politics and society. Her books, including Disaffected Democracies and Political Women in Japan, explore democracy, gender, media, and civil society in Japan.
Losing Face
How does a "homogeneous" society like Japan treat the problem of social inequality? Losing Face looks beyond conventional structural categories (race, class, ethnicity) to focus on conflicts based on differences in social status.