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Re-reading the Salaryman in Japan : Crafting Masculinities.

In Japan, the figure of the suited, white-collar office worker or business executive 'salaryman' (or, sarariiman), came to be associated with Japan's economic transformation following World War Two. The ubiquitous salaryman came to signify both Japanese masculinity, and Japanese corpo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dasgupta, Romit
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
Colección:Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) East Asian Series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note on Japanese names; 1 Introduction: salarymen in the 'Lost Decade'; 2 Framing the 'macro': historicizing salaryman masculinity; 3 Men's stories of becoming otoko; 4 Becoming shakaijin: 'craftings' into salaryman masculinity; 5 Working with salaryman masculinity; 6 Working with heterosexuality: sexuality, marriage, fatherhood, and salaryman masculinity; 7 Working with homosociality; 8 Beyond the 'JTB-Man': looking back from the 2010s; Glossary of Japanese terms; Appendix; Notes; References; Index