ISBN:
9780824838690
,
9780824838683
Language:
English
Pages:
VIII, 360 S.
,
Ill.
,
23 cm
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Capturing Contemporary Japan
DDC:
331.10952
Keywords:
Wirtschaftslage
;
Soziale Lage
;
Mittelschicht
;
Japan
;
Japan Economic conditions 21st century
;
Japan Social conditions 21st century
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Japan
;
Mittelstand
;
Sozialgeschichte 2000-2010
Abstract:
Introduction: differentiation and uncertainty / Satsuki Kawano, Glenda S. Roberts, and Susan Orpett Long -- Work and life in challenging times: a Kansai family across the generations / Glenda S. Roberts -- Masculinity and aging in a straitened Japan: the view from twenty years later / Gordon Mathews -- Working women of the bubble generation / Sawa Kurotani -- "Making an ant's forehead of difference": organic agriculture as a lifestyle alternative in Japan / Nancy Rosenberger -- Shelf lives and the labors of loss: food, livelihoods, and Japan's convenience stores / Gavin Hamilton Whitelaw -- Single women in marriage and employment markets / Lynne Nakano -- The aging of the Japanese family: meanings of grandchildren in old age / Susan Orpett Long -- Barrier-free brothels: sex volunteers, prostitutes, and people with disabilities / Karen Nakamura -- Recreating connections: nonprofit organizations' attempts to foster networking among mothers of preschoolers / Satsuki Kawano -- The divination arts in girl culture / Laura Miller -- Education after the "lost decade(s)": stability or stagnation? / Peter Cave -- Lightweight cars and women drivers: the de/construction of gender metaphors in recessionary Japan / Joshua Hotaka Roth -- The story of a seventy-three-year-old woman living alone: her thoughts on death rites -- Satsuki Kawano
Note:
Enth. 13 Beitr
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Introduction: differentiation and uncertainty
,
Work and life in challenging times: a Kansai family across the generations
,
Masculinity and aging in a straitened Japan: the view from twenty years later
,
Working women of the bubble generation
,
"Making an ant's forehead of difference": organic agriculture as a lifestyle alternative in Japan
,
Shelf lives and the labors of loss: food, livelihoods, and Japan's convenience stores
,
Single women in marriage and employment markets
,
The aging of the Japanese family: meanings of grandchildren in old age
,
Barrier-free brothels: sex volunteers, prostitutes, and people with disabilities
,
Recreating connections: nonprofit organizations' attempts to foster networking among mothers of preschoolers
,
The divination arts in girl culture
,
Education after the "lost decade(s)": stability or stagnation?
,
Lightweight cars and women drivers: the de/construction of gender metaphors in recessionary Japan
,
The story of a seventy-three-year-old woman living alone: her thoughts on death rites ; Satsuki Kawano.
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