1st Edition
Reconstructing Adult Masculinities Part-time Work in Contemporary Japan
By Emma E. Cook
Copyright 2016
224 Pages
by
Routledge
223 Pages
by
Routledge
223 Pages
by
Routledge
Also available as eBook on:
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... Read more
Introduction 1. Immature Masculinities? Freeter Labour and Adulthood 2. Being and Becoming: Aspirational Labour and Masculinities 3. Familial (Dis)Connections: Masculinities and Labour at Home 4. Marital Desires and Restrictive Masculinities 5. Female Labour and Commodified Selfhood 6. Conclusions: Reconstructing Adult Masculinities
Biography
Emma E. Cook is an Associate Professor on the Modern Japanese Studies Program at Hokkaido University, Japan.
