Erika Alpert
List of John Benjamins publications for which Erika Alpert plays a role.
Article
2014 Stoicism or shyness? Japanese professional matchmakers and new masculine conversational ideals Journal of Language and Sexuality 3:2, pp. 191–218 | Article
I examine data from my fieldwork with Japanese professional matchmakers and their attitude towards new, “less masculine” masculinities. Matchmakers’ ideologies of conversation show that they understand “good partners” as having personality traits that are not particularly ascribed to any gender.… read more