1st Edition
Re-reading the Salaryman in Japan Crafting Masculinities
By Romit Dasgupta
Copyright 2013
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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In Japan, the figure of the suited, white-collar office worker or business executive ‘salaryman’ (or, sarariiman ), came to be associated with Japan’s economic transformation following World War Two. The ubiquitous salaryman came to signify both Japanese masculinity, and Japanese corporate culture, and in this sense, the salaryman embodied ‘the archetypal citizen’.
This book uses the figure of... Read more
1. Introduction: Salarymen in the 'Lost Decade' 2. Framing the 'Macro': Historicizing Salaryman Masculinity 3. Men's Stories of Becoming Otoko 4. Becoming Shakaijon: 'Craftings' into Salaryman Masculinity 5. Working With Salaryman Masculinity 6. Working With Heterosexuality: Sexuality, Marriage, Fatherhood and Salaryman Masculinity 7. Working With Homosociality 8. Beyond the 'JTB-Man': Looking back from the 2010s
Biography
Romit Dasgupta is Assistant Professor of Asian Studies at the University of Western Australia.
