Career women in contemporary Japan : pursuing identities, fashioning lives

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    • Aronsson, Anne Stefanie

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Career women in contemporary Japan : pursuing identities, fashioning lives

Anne Stefanie Aronsson

(RoutledgeCurzon contemporary Japan series, 56)

Routledge, 2016

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Since Japan's economic recession began in the 1990s, the female workforce has experienced revolutionary changes as greater numbers of women have sought to establish careers. Employment trends indicate that increasingly white-collar professional women are succeeding in breaking through the "glass ceiling", as digital technologies blur and redefine work in spatial, gendered, and ideological terms. This book examines what motivates Japanese women to pursue professional careers in the contemporary neoliberal economy, and how they reconfigure notions of selfhood while doing so. It analyses how professional women contest conventional notions of femininity in contemporary Japan and in turn, negotiate new gender roles and cultural assumptions about women, whilst reorganizing the Japanese workplace and wider socio-economic relationships. Further, the book explores how professional women create new social identities through the mutual conditioning of structure and self, and asks how women come to understand their experiences; how their actions change the gendering of the workforce; and how their lives shape the economic, political, social, and cultural landscapes of this post-industrial nation. Based on extensive fieldwork, Career Women in Contemporary Japan will have broad appeal across a range of disciplines including Japanese culture and society, gender and family studies, women's studies, anthropology, ethnology and sociology.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Women and Work in Modern Japan 3. Identity, Family, and Career 4. Pioneering Female Career tracks in Japan - Women in Their Sixties and Above 5. The Performative Aspect of Self-Fulfilling Prophecies - Women in Their Fifties 6. Through the Labyrinth of Their Working Lives - Women in Their Forties 7. Reevaluating the Self - Women in Their Thirties 8. Transitioning to a Career - Women in Their Twenties 9. Conclusion

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  • NCID
    BB22851385
  • ISBN
    • 9781138236769
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London
  • Pages/Volumes
    xiii, 256 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
  • Parent Bibliography ID
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