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Modern Girls on the Go : Gender, Mobility and Labour in Japan.
This spirited and engaging multidisciplinary volume pins its focus on the lived experiences and cultural depictions of women's mobility and labor in Japan. The theme of ""modern girls"" continues to offer a captivating window into the changes that women's roles have und...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Palo Alto :
Stanford University Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This spirited and engaging multidisciplinary volume pins its focus on the lived experiences and cultural depictions of women's mobility and labor in Japan. The theme of ""modern girls"" continues to offer a captivating window into the changes that women's roles have undergone during the course of the last century. Here we encounter Japanese women inhabiting the most modern of spaces, in newly created professions, moving upward and outward, claiming the public life as their own: shop girls, elevator girls, dance hall dancers, tour bus guides, airline stewardesses, international beau. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (297 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780804785549 0804785546 |