Modern girls on the go : gender, mobility, and labor 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 undergone...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Freedman, Alisa, Miller, Laura, 1953-, Yano, Christine Reiko
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2013.
Temas:
1900 - 2099
Women > Employment > Japan > History > 20th century.
Women > Employment > Japan > History > 21st century.
Social mobility > Japan > History > 20th century.
Social mobility > Japan > History > 21st century.
Sex role > Japan > History > 20th century.
Sex role > Japan > History > 21st century.
Mobilité sociale > Japon > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Mobilité sociale > Japon > Histoire > 21e siècle.
Rôle selon le sexe > Japon > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Rôle selon le sexe > Japon > Histoire > 21e siècle.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
Sex role.
Social conditions
Social mobility.
Women > Employment.
Gender roles
Japan > Social conditions > 20th century.
Japan > Social conditions > 21st century.
Japon > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
Japon > Conditions sociales > 21e siècle.
Japan.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : modern girls in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries : cultural meanings of gender, mobility, and labor
  • Moving up and out : the "shop girl" in interwar Japan / Elise K. Tipton
  • Elevator girls moving in and out of the box / Laura Miller
  • Sweat, perfume, and tobacco : the ambivalent labor of the dance hall girl / Vera Mackie
  • "Flying geisha" : Japanese stewardesses with Pan American World Airways / Christine R. Yano
  • Bus guides tour national landscapes, pop culture, and youth fantasies / Alisa Freedman
  • The modern girl as militarist : female soldiers in and beyond Japan's self-defense forces / Sabine Frühstück
  • The promises and possibilities of the pitch : 1990s Ladies League soccer players as fin de siècle modern girls / Elise Edwards
  • Miss Japan on the global stage : the journey of Ito Kinuko / Jan Bardsley
  • Traveling to learn, learning to lead : Japanese women as American college students, 1900-1941 / Sally A. Hastings
  • A personal journey across the Pacific / Yoko McClain.

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