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Capturing contemporary Japan : differentiation and uncertainty
Title
Capturing contemporary Japan : differentiation and uncertainty / edited by Satsuki Kawano, Glenda S. Roberts, Susan Orpett Long.
ISBN
9780824838690 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0824838696 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780824838683 (cloth : alk. paper)
0824838688 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2014]
Physical Description
viii, 360 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 21, 2014
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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.
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