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Reconstructing Adult Masculinities : Part-time Work in Contemporary Japan
by Emma E. Cook
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Overview
Over the past two decades, Japan's socioeconomic environment has undergone considerable changes Within this context, "freeters" - young part-time workers aged between fifteen and thirty-four who are not housewives or students - have emerged into the public arena as a social problem. This book, drawing on six years of ethnographic research, takes the lives of male freeters as a lens to examine contemporary notions of masculinity and adulthood. It queries how notions of adulthood and masculinity are interwoven and how these ideals are changing in the face of large-scale employment shifts, whilst also considering whether male freeters can become "proper" adult men in contemporary Japan.
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- ISBN-13: 9780815375678
- ISBN-10: 0815375670
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publish Date: October 2017
- Dimensions: 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.47 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.7 pounds
- Page Count: 224
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