Re Imaging Japanese Women

Author : Anne E. Imamura
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1996-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520202635

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Re-Imaging Japanese Women by Anne E. Imamura Pdf

Re-Imaging Japanese Women takes a revealing look at women whose voices have only recently begun to be heard in Japanese society: politicians, practitioners of traditional arts, writers, radicals, wives, mothers, bar hostesses, department store and blue-collar workers. This unique collection of essays gives a broad, interdisciplinary view of contemporary Japanese women while challenging readers to see the development of Japanese women's lives against the backdrop of domestic and global change. These essays provide a "second generation" analysis of roles, issues and social change. The collection brings up to date the work begun in Gail Lee Bernstein's Recreating Japanese Women, 1600-1945 (California, 1991), exploring disparities between the current range of images of Japanese women and the reality behind the choices women make.

Author : Sumiko Iwao
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1998-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781439106136

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Japanese Woman by Sumiko Iwao Pdf

Westerners and Japanese men have a vivid mental image of Japanese women as dependent, deferential, and devoted to their families--anything but ambitious. In fact, the author shows, Japanese women hold equal and sometimes even more powerful positions than men in many spheres.

Author : Takeshi Hamano
Publisher : Springer
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811378485

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Marriage Migrants of Japanese Women in Australia by Takeshi Hamano Pdf

This book investigates the experience of Japanese women who have immigrated to Australia through marriage to a local partner. Based on long-term participant observations gathered with a Japanese ethnic association in Sydney, and on in-depth interviews with the association’s members, it examines the ways in which the women remould themselves in Australia by constructing gendered selves that reflect their unique migratory circumstances through cross-border marriage. In turn, the book argues that the women tend to embrace expressions of Japanese femininity that they once viewed negatively, and that this is due to their lack of social skills and access to the cultural capital of mainstream Australian society. Re-molding the self through conventional Japanese notions of gender ironically provides them with a convincing identity: that of minority migrant women. Nevertheless, by analyzing these women’s engagement with a Japanese ethnic association in a suburb of Sydney, the book also reveals a nuanced sense of ambivalence; a tension between the women’s Japanese community and their lives in Australia. Accordingly, the book provides a fresh perspective on interdisciplinary issues of gender and migration in a globalized world, and engages with a wide range of academic disciplines including: sociology of migration; sociology of culture; cultural anthropology; cultural studies; Japanese studies; Asian studies; gender studies; family studies; migration studies and qualitative methodologies.

Author : Kaye Broadbent
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136133466

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Women's Employment in Japan by Kaye Broadbent Pdf

The low status accorded to part-time workers in Japan has resulted in huge inequalities in the workplace. This book examines the problem in-depth using case-study investigations in Japanese workplaces, and reveals the extent of the inequality. It shows how many part-time workers, most of whom are women, are concentrated in low paid, low skilled, poorly unionised service sector jobs. Part-time workers in Japan work hours equivalent to, or greater than, full-time workers, but receive lower financial and welfare benefits than their full-time colleagues. Overall, the book demonstrates that the way part-time work is constructed in Japan reinforces and institutionalises the sexual division of labour.

Author : Anne Stefanie Aronsson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317686972

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Career Women in Contemporary Japan by Anne Stefanie Aronsson Pdf

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.

Author : Naoko Takemaru
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786456109

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Women in the Language and Society of Japan by Naoko Takemaru Pdf

Feminist critics have long considered language a primary vehicle for the transmission of sexist values in a society. This much-needed sociolinguistic critique examines the representation of women in traditional Japanese language and society. Derogatory and highly-sexualized terms are placed in historical context, and the progress of nonsexist language reform is reviewed. Central to this work are the individual voices of Japanese women who took part in a survey, expressing their candid thoughts and concerns regarding biased gender representations. In their own words, they give voice to the reality of being female within the constraints of a traditional--and sometimes misogynistic--language.

Author : Bettina Liebowitz Knapp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105043392930

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Images of Japanese Women by Bettina Liebowitz Knapp Pdf

Author : Linda Cimardi,Iva Nenic
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Music
ISBN : 9783839465462

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Women's Leadership in Music by Linda Cimardi,Iva Nenic Pdf

Various modes of women's contemporary cultural, social and political leadership can be found in music. Informed by different histories and culturally bound social mores but also by a comparative perspective, the contributors of this volume ask what can be considered leadership in culture from women's point of view. They deconstruct the notion of leadership as corporative and career-related modes of success by showing how women's agency, power and negotiation in and through music can and should be considered as empowering, transformative and role-modeling. By interweaving several disciplinary perspectives - from ethnomusicology, musicology and cultural management to sociology and anthropology - this volume aims to substantially contribute to the study of women's leadership.

Author : Debora Aoki
Publisher : Trans Pacific Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Widows
ISBN : 1920901280

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Widows of Japan by Debora Aoki Pdf

The author examines widowhood in Japanese society through an anthropological lens. It discusses the history of the Japanese widow as compared her to her Chinese and Korean counterparts. Gender roles, the government's role, particularly in respect to war widows, religion, and the changing face of widowhood today are also considered.

Author : Shigeko Okamoto,Janet S. Shibamoto Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004-10-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190290269

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Japanese Language, Gender, and Ideology by Shigeko Okamoto,Janet S. Shibamoto Smith Pdf

Japanese Language, Gender and Ideology is a collection of previously unpublished articles by established as well as promising young scholars in Japanese language and gender studies. The contributors to this edited volume argue that traditional views of language in Japan are cultural constructs created by policy makers and linguists, and that Japanese society in general, and language use in particular, are much more diverse and heterogeneous than previously understood. This volume brings together studies that substantially advance our understanding of the relationship between Japanese language and gender, with particular focus on examining local linguistic practices in relation to dominant ideologies. Topics studies include gender and politeness, the history of language policy, language and Japanese romance novels and fashion magazines, bar talk, dictionary definitions, and the use of first-person pronouns. The volume will substantially advance the agenda of this field, and will be of interest to sociolinguists, anthropologists, sociologists, and scholars of Japan and Japanese.

Author : Emma E. Cook
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317433446

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Reconstructing Adult Masculinities by Emma E. Cook Pdf

Over the past two decades, Japan’s socioeconomic environment has undergone considerable changes prompted by both a long recession and the relaxation of particular labour laws in the 1990s and 2000s. Within this context, "freeters", part-time workers aged between fifteen and thirty-four who are not housewives or students, emerged into the public arena as a social problem. This book, drawing on six years of ethnographic research, takes the lives of male freeters as a lens to examine contemporary ideas and experiences of adult masculinities. It queries how notions of adulthood and masculinity are interwoven and how these ideals are changing in the face of large-scale employment shifts. Highlighting the continuing importance of productivity and labour in understandings of masculinities, it argues that men experience and practice multiple masculinities which are often contradictory, sometimes limiting, and change as they age and in interaction with others, and with social structures, institutions, and expectations. Providing a fascinating alternative to the stereotypical idea of the Japanese male as a salaryman, this book will be of huge interest to students and scholars of Japanese culture and society, social and cultural anthropology, gender and men's studies.

Author : Lorraine Sterry
Publisher : Global Oriental
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789004213098

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Victorian Women Travellers in Meiji Japan by Lorraine Sterry Pdf

Complementing other published works about travel by nineteenth-century women writers by locating and creating ‘space’ for Japan is missing within recent critical discourses on travel writing, it examines narratives of women writers who travelled to Japan from the mid-1850s onwards, and became a highly desirable travel destination thereafter.

Author : Helen M. Hopper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429711060

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A New Woman Of Japan by Helen M. Hopper Pdf

This perceptive, detailed biography traces the life of Katô Shidzue, one of Japan's most powerful female activists and politicians. Katô's activism initially was sparked by her friendship with Margaret Sanger, who inspired Katô to found a Japanese birth control movement in the 1920s.

Author : Barbara Molony,Kathleen Uno
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 631 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684174171

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Gendering Modern Japanese History by Barbara Molony,Kathleen Uno Pdf

"In the past quarter-century, gender has emerged as a lively area of inquiry for historians and other scholars, and gender analysis has suggested important revisions of the “master narratives” of national histories—the dominant, often celebratory tales of the successes of a nation and its leaders. Although modern Japanese history has not yet been restructured by a foregrounding of gender, historians of Japan have begun to embrace gender as an analytic category. The sixteen chapters in this volume treat men as well as women, theories of sexuality as well as gender prescriptions, and same-sex as well as heterosexual relations in the period from 1868 to the present. All of them take the position that history is gendered; that is, historians invariably, perhaps unconsciously, construct a gendered notion of past events, people, and ideas. Together, these essays construct a history informed by the idea that gender matters because it was part of the experience of people and because it often has been a central feature in the construction of modern ideologies, discourses, and institutions. Separately, each chapter examines how Japanese have (en)gendered their ideas, institutions, and society. "

Author : Kaori H. Okano
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134030842

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Young Women in Japan by Kaori H. Okano Pdf

This book examines young women in Japan, focusing in particular on their transitions to adulthood, their conceptions of adulthood and relations with Japanese society more generally. It considers important aspects of the transition to adulthood including employment, marriage, divorce, childbirth and custody.