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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Long, Susan Orpett (Editor ), Roberts, Glenda Susan, 1955- (Editor ), Kawano, Satsuki, 1966- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.