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Romit Dasgupta - Re-reading the Salaryman in Japan: Crafting Masculinities - 9780415748780 - V9780415748780
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Re-reading the Salaryman in Japan: Crafting Masculinities

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Description for Re-reading the Salaryman in Japan: Crafting Masculinities Paperback. Given the important role Japanese corporate culture has played in Japan's emergence as an industrial power, the research in this volume offers a new way of looking both at Japanese business culture and at more general changes to the definitions of masculinity in Japanese society. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 358.

In Japan, the figure of the suited, white-collar office worker or business executive ‘salaryman’ (or, sarariiman), came to be associated with Japan’s economic transformation following World War Two. The ubiquitous salaryman came to signify both Japanese masculinity, and Japanese corporate culture, and in this sense, the salaryman embodied ‘the archetypal citizen’.

This book uses the figure of the salaryman to explore masculinity in Japan by examining the salaryman as a gendered construct. Whilst there is a considerable body of literature on Japanese corporate culture and a growing acknowledgement of the role of gender, until now the focus has been almost exclusively ... Read more

Based on intensive interviews carried out with young male private sector employees in Japan, this book makes an important contribution to the study of masculinity and Japanese corporate culture, in addition to providing an insight into Japanese culture more generally. As such it will be of great interest to students and scholars of Japanese studies, Japanese society and gender studies.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415748780
SKU
V9780415748780
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-2

About Romit Dasgupta
Romit Dasgupta is Assistant Professor of Asian Studies at the University of Western Australia.

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