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Auteur(s) : Aronsson, Anne Stefanie
Titre(s) : Career women in contemporary Japan [Texte imprimé] : pursuing identities, fashioning lives / Anne Stefanie Aronsson
Publication : London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis group, 2015
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XIII-256 p.) ; 24 cm
Collection : Routledge contemporary Japan series ; 56
Lien à la collection : Routledge contemporary Japan series
Comprend : Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction ; Times of major transitions ;
Postwar Japan ; gendering the workforce and diverging paths ; Professional aspirations
and career options ; Positionality in a shifting field ; Structure of the book
; 2.Women and work in modern Japan ; Identity and the shaping of white-collar career
trajectories ; Japan as a neoliberal economy ; critical perspectives on knowledge,
power, and practice ; 3.Identity, family, and career ; Identity and selfhood ;
Aspects of an aging society ; Low birth and high divorce rates ; Workforce participation
of women and work-life integration ; 4.Pioneering female career tracks in Japan
; women in their sixties and above ; Nomura Mihoko and others ; the outliers ;
Conclusion ; 5.The performative aspect of self-fulfilling prophecies ; women in
their fifties ; Imagawa Tomiko and Kawamori Mieko ; the forerunners ; Conclusion
;
Contents note continued: 6.Through the labyrinth of their working lives ; women
in their forties ; Fukuyama Noriko and others ; "last chance" anxieties ; Conclusion
; 7.Reevaluating the self ; women in their thirties ; Kishimoto Yoshie and Fukuda
Reiko ; conflicting life choices ; Conclusion ; 8.Transitioning to a career ;
women in their twenties ; Suzuki Masako and Nagata Yoko ; finding one's path in
uncertain times ; Conclusion ; 9.Conclusion ; The "career woman" archetype ; Constant
transitions ; Future prospects.
Note(s) : "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"
Sujet(s) : Travail des femmes -- Japon
Femmes -- Japon
Plan de carrière -- Japon
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781138025189 (hardback). - ISBN 1138025186 (hardback). - ISBN 9781315775289
(erroné) (e-book). - ISBN 131577528X. - ISBN 9781315775289
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb442709020
Notice n° :
FRBNF44270902
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