Career Women in Contemporary Japan

Pursuing Identities, Fashioning Lives

Anne Stefanie Aronsson (Yale University, USA.)

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English

Routledge
24 October 2014

Regional studies; Gender studies, gender groups; Sociology: work & labour; Anthropology; Business & management

Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series

"Since Japan’s economic recession began in the 1990s, the female workforce has experienced revolutionary changes as greater numbers of women have sought to establish careers. Employment trends indicate that increasingly white-collar professional women are succeeding in breaking through the ""glass ceiling"", as digital technologies blur and redefine work in spatial, gendered, and ideological terms.

This book examines what motivates Japanese women to pursue professional careers in the contemporary neoliberal economy, and how they reconfigure notions of selfhood while doing so. It analyses how professional women contest conventional notions of femininity in contemporary Japan and in turn, negotiate new gender roles and cultural assumptions about women, whilst reorganizing the Japanese workplace and wider socio-economic relationships. Further, the book explores how professional women create new social identities through the mutual conditioning of structure and self, and asks how women come to understand their experiences; how their actions change the gendering of the workforce; and how their lives shape the economic, political, social, and cultural landscapes of this post-industrial nation.

Based on extensive fieldwork, Career Women in Contemporary Japan will have broad appeal across a range of disciplines including Japanese culture and society, gender and family studies, women’s studies, anthropology, ethnology and sociology."

By: Anne Stefanie Aronsson (Yale University USA.)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 521g
ISBN: 9781138025189
ISBN 10: 1138025186
Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 24 October 2014
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction 2. Women and Work in Modern Japan 3. Identity, Family, and Career 4. Pioneering Female Career tracks in Japan – Women in Their Sixties and Above 5. The Performative Aspect of Self-Fulfilling Prophecies – Women in Their Fifties 6. Through the Labyrinth of Their Working Lives – Women in Their Forties 7. Reevaluating the Self – Women in Their Thirties 8. Transitioning to a Career – Women in Their Twenties 9. Conclusion

Anne Stefanie Aronsson holds a PhD in Anthropology from Yale University, USA