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Modern Girls on the Go Gender, Mobility, and Labor in Japan

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Synopsis

This spirited and engaging multidisciplinary volume pins its focus on the lived experiences and cultural depictions of women's mobility and labor in Japan. The theme of "modern girls" continues to offer a captivating window into the changes that women's roles have undergone during the course of the last century.
Here we encounter Japanese women inhabiting the most modern of spaces, in newly created professions, moving upward and outward, claiming the public life as their own: shop girls, elevator girls, dance hall dancers, tour bus guides, airline stewardesses, international beauty queens, overseas teachers, corporate soccer players, and even female members of the Self-Defense Forces. Directly linking gender, mobility, and labor in 20th and 21st century Japan, this collection brings to life the ways in which these modern girls—historically and contemporaneously—have influenced social roles, patterns of daily life, and Japan's global image. It is an ideal guidebook for students, scholars, and general readers alike.

Book details

Author:
Alisa Freedman, Laura Miller, and Christine R. Yano
ISBN:
9780804785549
Related ISBNs:
9780804781138, 9780804781145, 9780804781138, 9780804781145
Publisher:
Stanford University Press
Pages:
296
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2022-05-27
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2013
Copyright by:
the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Nonfiction, Social Studies