Justin Charlebois

Japanese Femininities (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Through interviews with a range of Japanese women, this book explores how women's gender roles are both reified and undermined in Japan today, and uncovers the prevalent themes, or 'discourses', that are utilized to construct gendered identities. It shows that while dominant discourses formulate notions of femininity within the domestic sphere, these are simultaneously resisted and problematized by contemporary women. To this end, Justin Charlebois traces the construction of different 'oppositional' femininities, such as the single career woman and married working mother, which challenge, destabilize, and potentially reconfigure the traditional gender order.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135098292
• Artikelnr.: 39478483

Autorenporträt

Justin Charlebois is Associate Professor of Communication in the Department of Global Culture and Communication at Aichi Shukutoku University, Japan.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Hegemonic Masculinity and Emphasized Femininity in Post-World War II Japan 2. The Social Construction of Gender 3. Methodology, Data Collection, and Research Participants 4. Dominant Discourses Constituting Emphasized Femininity 5. Related Discourses Constituting Emphasized Femininity 6. Oppositional Femininities 7. Conclusion