Capturing Contemporary Japan : Differentiation and Uncertainty /

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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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Other Authors: Long, Susan Orpett (Editor), Roberts, Glenda Susan, 1955- (Editor), Kawano, Satsuki, 1966- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Familie
Arbeit
Frau
Gesellschaft
Social conditions
Economic history.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
Japan
Japan.
Japon > Conditions sociales > 21e siecle.
Japon > Conditions economiques > 21e siecle.
Japan > Social conditions > 21st century.
Japan > Economic conditions > 21st century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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