Life in a Japanese Women's College: Learning to be Ladylike

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Routledge, 13 сент. 2013 г. - Всего страниц: 288

One third of the Japanese female workforce are 'office ladies' and their training takes place in the many women's junior colleges. Office ladies are low-wage, low-status secretaries who have little or no job security.
Brian J. McVeigh draws on his experience as a teacher at one such institution to explore the cultural and social processes used to promote 'femininity' in Japanese women. His detailed and ethnographically-informed study considers how the students of these institutions are socialized to fit their future dual roles of employees and mothers, and illuminates the sociopolitical role that the colleges play in Japanese society as a whole.

 

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purposes premises and problems
1
reuniting body mind and practice
21
the cultural context of Takasu International College
35
4 Cultivating ladylike and international women at Takasu
60
5 Takasu as an institution
85
6 Ceremonies of culture in a culture of ceremony
119
engendering gender through the body
146
the politics of shyness and schooling
172
9 Leaving college life and entering the adult world
191
socialization gender schooling and the state
213
Notes
221
Bibliography
243
Index
254
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Brian J McVeigh is Associate Professor, Toyo Gakuen University, Tokyo

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