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Reconstructing Adult Masculinities: Part-time Work in Contemporary Japan

Reconstructing Adult Masculinities: Part-time Work in Contemporary Japan

Hardcover

Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

AnthropologyGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesSocial Movements

ISBN10: 1138911593
ISBN13: 9781138911598
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 15 2015
Pages: 207
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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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