Brian J. Mcveigh

Life in a Japanese Women's College (eBook, ePUB)

Learning to be Ladylike

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

One third of Japan's women workers are 'office ladies' - low status, low security secretaries, who are trained at Junior Colleges. The author, who taught at such a College, discusses life there, and their cultural and sociopolitical role.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136183195
• Artikelnr.: 39910456

Autorenporträt

Brian J McVeigh is Associate Professor, Toyo Gakuen University, Tokyo

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Purposes, Premises, and Problems 2. Mental Acts as Social
Behaviour: Reuniting Body, Mind and Practice 3. The Ethnomorality of
Etiquette: The Cultural Context of Takasu International College 4.
Cultivating 'Ladylike' and 'International' Women at Takasu 5. Takasu as an
Institution 6. Ceremonies of Culture in a Culture of Ceremony 7. Becoming
an 'Office Lady': Engendering Gender through the Body 8. Students: The
Politics of Shyness and Schooling 9. Leaving College Life and Entering the
Adult World 10. Conclusion: Socialization, Gender, Schooling and the State
Bibliography Index