Japanese femininities / Justin Charlebois.
The corporate salaryman and professional housewife stand as hegemonic archetypes of masculinity and femininity in Japan. However, these rigid gender roles are being challenged by women who are seeking to move beyond the strictly defined confines of their traditional roles as caregivers and homemaker...
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Routledge,
2013.
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| Series: | Routledge contemporary Japan series.
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Table of Contents:
- Hegemonic masculinity and emphasized femininity in post-World War II Japan
- The social construction of gender
- Methodology, data collection, and research participants
- Dominant discourses constituting emphasized femininity
- Related discourses constituting emphasized femininity
- Oppositional femininities
- Conclusion.