Crafting Selves : Power, Gender, and Discourses of Identity in a Japanese Workplace / Dorinne K. Kondo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kondo, Dorinne K., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Group identity--Japan.

Self-perception in women--Japan.

Women--Employment--Japan.

Women--Japan--Economic conditions.

Women--Japan--Identity.

Women--Japan--Social conditions.

Women.

Women--Economic conditions--Japan.

Group identity--Identity--Japan.

Group identity.

Self-perception in women.

Women--Japan.

Local Subjects:

Group identity--Japan.

Self-perception in women--Japan.

Women--Employment--Japan.

Women--Japan--Economic conditions.

Women--Japan--Identity.

Women--Japan--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (362 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2009]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"The ethnography of Japan is currently being reshaped by a new generation of Japanologists, and the present work certainly deserves a place in this body of literature. . . . The combination of utility with beauty makes Kondo's book required reading, for those with an interest not only in Japan but also in reflexive anthropology, women's studies, field methods, the anthropology of work, social psychology, Asian Americans, and even modern literature."-Paul H. Noguchi, American Anthropologist "Kondo's work is significant because she goes beyond disharmony, insisting on complexity. Kondo shows that inequalities are not simply oppressive-they are meaningful ways to establish identities."-Nancy Rosenberger, Journal of Asian Studies

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Note on Romanization

Part I. Setting

Part 2. Family as Company, Company as Family

Part 3. Gender and Work Identities

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780226098159

022609815X

OCLC:

855969935