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“I was stunned by the lack of flirting between men and women. Like geishas, the women I studied were above sex. Their bodies, put through such rigorous paces, were purified and not for earthly pursuits.”
V interesting contradiction
So much focus on looking desirable, then no one acts on it

“ we expected ourselves to perform as well as professionals because our physical selves, like our motherhood, had become professionalized. Beyond an identity it was a calling, a vocation , something to excel at.”

“Going native”- the term for when the field scientist slips from objectivity into identification with the people she is studying.

No time for play- play date consultants instead

“we live neolocally in the United States- leaving extended family to form our own separate households upon marriage”