Cook Reconstructing Adult Masculinities

Part-time Work in Contemporary Japan
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-317-43343-9
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 223 Seiten

Reihe: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

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” (young 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, take the lives of male freeters as a lens to examine contemporary notions of masculinity and adulthood, querying how notions of adulthood and masculinity are interwoven and how these ideals are changing in the face of large-scale employment shifts. At the same time, it asks: in today’s Japan, can (and do) male freeters become ‘proper’ adult men?

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cook, Emma E.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction 2 Men, Masculinities and Labour 3 Freeter Depictions 4 Cinema Labour and Workplace Relations 5 Work and the Search for Meaning 6 Romance, Intimacy and Labour 7 Family Life 8 Female Freeters 9 Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

Emma Cook is Associate Professor in the Office of International Affairs at Hokkaido University, Japan.and a social anthropologist with interests in topics that range from youth employment, gender, family, and intimacy to the role of food in sociality in Japan.