Description: Taking cover under her more innocuous theme of the recent internationalization of Japanese womens lives and careers, Karen Kelsky bluntly asks one of the great taboo questions in Japanese studies: why do so many Japanese women, if given the chance, prefer white husbands over those of their own ethnicity? What are the historical and psychological reasons for a powerful attraction enshrined in popular culture since Madame Butterfly but until now never critically examined, certainly not from a modern feminist perspective? Kelskys provocative answers to these questions make her Women on the Verge the first study we have of Japans eroticization of the West, in a world already so full of books that would tell us how the West has eroticized Japan.-John Whittier Treat, Yale University

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