Capturing contemporary Japan : differentiation and uncertainty /
What are people's life experiences in present-day Japan? This timely volume addresses fundamental questions vital to understanding Japan in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Its chapters collectively reveal a questioning of middle-class ideals once considered the essence of Japanese...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press,
©2014.
Honolulu : [2014] |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: differentiation and uncertainty / Satsuki Kawano, Glenda S. Roberts, and Susan Orpett Long
- Work and life in challenging times: a Kansai family across the generations / Glenda S. Roberts
- Masculinity and aging in a straitened Japan: the view from twenty years later / Gordon Mathews
- Working women of the bubble generation / Sawa Kurotani
- "Making an ant's forehead of difference": organic agriculture as a lifestyle alternative in Japan / Nancy Rosenberger
- Shelf lives and the labors of loss: food, livelihoods, and Japan's convenience stores / Gavin Hamilton Whitelaw
- Single women in marriage and employment markets / Lynne Nakano
- The aging of the Japanese family: meanings of grandchildren in old age / Susan Orpett Long
- Barrier-free brothels: sex volunteers, prostitutes, and people with disabilities / Karen Nakamura
- Recreating connections: nonprofit organizations' attempts to foster networking among mothers of preschoolers / Satsuki Kawano
- The divination arts in girl culture / Laura Miller
- Education after the "lost decade(s)": stability or stagnation? / Peter Cave
- Lightweight cars and women drivers: the de/construction of gender metaphors in recessionary Japan / Joshua Hotaka Roth
- The story of a seventy-three-year-old woman living alone: her thoughts on death rites
- Satsuki Kawano.