Career Women in Contemporary Japan
Since Japans 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 analyzes how professional women contest conventional notions of femininity in contemporary Japan, and in turn negotiate new gender roles and cultural assumptions about women, while reorganizing the Japanese workplace and wider socioeconomic 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, womens studies, anthropology, ethnology, and sociology.
Anne Stefanie Aronsson holds a PhD in Anthropology from Yale University, USA.
Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
1 A Japanese Company in Crisis
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2 Japans Foreign Aid
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3 Japanese Apologies for World War II
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4 Linguistic Stereotyping and Minority Groups in Japan
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5 Shinkansen
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6 Small Firms and Innovation Policy in Japan
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7 Cities, Autonomy and Decentralization in Japan
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8 The Changing Japanese Family
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9 Adoption in Japan
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10 The Ethics of Aesthetics in Japanese Cinema and Literature
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11 Institutional and Technological Change in Japans Economy
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12 Political Reform in Japan
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13 Civil Society and the Internet in Japan
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14 Japans Contested War Memories
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15 Japanese Love Hotels
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16 Population Decline and Ageing in Japan The Social Consequences
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17 Zainichi Korean Identity and Ethnicity
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18 A Japanese Joint Venture in the Pacific
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19 Japanese-Russian Relations, 19072007
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20 War Memory, Nationalism and Education in Post-War Japan, 19452007
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21 A New Japan for the Twenty-First Century
An inside overview of current fundamental changes and problems
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22 A Life Adrift
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23 The Novels of Oe Kenzaburo
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24 Perversion in Modern Japan
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25 Homosexuality and Manliness in Postwar Japan
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26 Marriage in Contemporary Japan
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28 The Rise of Japanese NGOs
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29 Postwar History Education in Japan and the Germanys
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30 Japan-Bashing
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31 Legacies of the Asia-Pacific War
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32 Challenges of Human Resource Management in Japan
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33 Translation in Modern Japan
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34 Language Life in Japan
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35 The Quest for Japans New Constitution
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36 Japan in the Age of Globalization
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37 Social Networks and Japanese Democracy
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38 Dealing with Disaster in Japan
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39 The Ethics of Japans Global
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40 Superhuman Japan
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41 Nationalism, Political Realism and Democracy in Japan
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43 Mental Health Care in Japan
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44 Manga and the Representation of Japanese History
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45 Negotiating Censorship in Modern Japan
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46 EUJapan Relations, 19702012
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48 Diplomacy in JapanEU Relations
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