Career women in contemporary Japan : pursuing identities, fashioning lives /

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Main Author: Aronsson, Anne Stefanie
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.
Series:Routledge contemporary Japan series ; 56.
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505 0 |a Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction -- Times of major transitions -- Postwar Japan -- gendering the workforce and diverging paths -- Professional aspirations and career options -- Positionality in a shifting field -- Structure of the book -- 2.Women and work in modern Japan -- Identity and the shaping of white-collar career trajectories -- Japan as a neoliberal economy -- critical perspectives on knowledge, power, and practice -- 3.Identity, family, and career -- Identity and selfhood -- Aspects of an aging society -- Low birth and high divorce rates -- Workforce participation of women and work-life integration -- 4.Pioneering female career tracks in Japan -- women in their sixties and above -- Nomura Mihoko and others -- the outliers -- Conclusion -- 5.The performative aspect of self-fulfilling prophecies -- women in their fifties -- Imagawa Tomiko and Kawamori Mieko -- the forerunners -- Conclusion -- 
505 0 |a Contents note continued: 6.Through the labyrinth of their working lives -- women in their forties -- Fukuyama Noriko and others -- "last chance" anxieties -- Conclusion -- 7.Reevaluating the self -- women in their thirties -- Kishimoto Yoshie and Fukuda Reiko -- conflicting life choices -- Conclusion -- 8.Transitioning to a career -- women in their twenties -- Suzuki Masako and Nagata Yoko -- finding one's path in uncertain times -- Conclusion -- 9.Conclusion -- The "career woman" archetype -- Constant transitions -- Future prospects. 
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