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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787548103321

Autore

Kondo Dorinne K.

Titolo

Crafting Selves : Power, Gender, and Discourses of Identity in a Japanese Workplace / / Dorinne K. Kondo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , [2009]

©1990

ISBN

0-226-09815-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (362 p.)

Disciplina

305.42

305.420952

Soggetti

Group identity -- Japan

Self-perception in women -- Japan

Women -- Employment -- Japan

Women -- Japan -- Economic conditions

Women -- Japan -- Identity

Women -- Japan -- Social conditions

Women - Employment - Japan

Women - Social conditions - Japan

Women - Economic conditions - Japan

Group identity - Identity - Japan

Self-perception in women - Japan

Women - Japan

Business & Economics

Labor & Workers' Economics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Romanization -- Part I. Setting -- Part 2. Family as Company, Company as Family -- Part 3. Gender and Work Identities -- Notes -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

"The ethnography of Japan is currently being reshaped by a new generation of Japanologists, and the present work certainly deserves a



place in this body of literature. . . . The combination of utility with beauty makes Kondo's book required reading, for those with an interest not only in Japan but also in reflexive anthropology, women's studies, field methods, the anthropology of work, social psychology, Asian Americans, and even modern literature."-Paul H. Noguchi, American Anthropologist "Kondo's work is significant because she goes beyond disharmony, insisting on complexity. Kondo shows that inequalities are not simply oppressive-they are meaningful ways to establish identities."-Nancy Rosenberger, Journal of Asian Studies