Beauty up : exploring contemporary Japanese body aesthetics / / Laura Miller |
Autore | Miller Laura <1953-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiv, 256 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 306.4/0952 |
Soggetto topico |
Human body - Social aspects - Japan
Beauty, Personal - Japan Beauty culture - Japan Body image - Japan Philosophy, Japanese |
Soggetto non controllato |
aesthetic salons
beauty culture beauty ideals beauty industry beauty language beauty standards beauty work body aesthetics body hair removal consumer society contemporary history contemporary japan cosmetic surgery cultural criticism diet and health elective surgery gender ideology identity management japanese culture japanese men japanese women male beauty men and women nonfiction plastic surgery popular culture social science |
ISBN |
9786612771859
0-520-93884-4 1-282-77185-X 1-60129-397-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Preliminaries -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Approaches To Body Aesthetics And The Beauty System -- 1. Changing Beauty Ideology -- 2. Aesthetic Salons -- 3. Mammary Mania -- 4. Body Fashion And Beauty Etiquette -- 5. Male Beauty Work -- 6. The Well-Behaved Appetite -- 7. The Language Of Esute -- 8. Esute Power -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784407203321 |
Miller Laura <1953->
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Making Japanese citizens [[electronic resource] ] : civil society and the mythology of the Shimin in postwar Japan / / Simon Andrew Avenell |
Autore | Avenell Simon Andrew |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (370 p.) |
Disciplina | 323.6/0952 |
Soggetto topico |
Citizenship - Japan
Civil society - Japan Political activists - Japan |
Soggetto non controllato |
asia scholars
asian studies civic activism civic groups civic thought contemporary japan democracy government reform historians industrialized nations japan japanese citizens japanese history japanese society local government modern history political participation popular nationalism postwar era postwar japan protests retrospective self reliance shimin mythology social activists social cultural history social movements |
ISBN |
0-520-94767-3
9786612732560 1-282-73256-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Before the Shimin: The Dark Energy of the People -- 2. Mass Society, Anpo, and the Birth of the Shimin -- 3. Beheiren and the Asian Shimin: The Fate of Conscientious Civic Activism -- 4. Residents into Citizens: The Fate of Pragmatic Civic Activism -- 5. Shimin, New Civic Movements, and the Politics of Proposal -- Conclusion: The Shimin Idea and Civil Society -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786713803321 |
Avenell Simon Andrew
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Recreating Japanese men / / edited by Sabine Frühstück and Anne Walthall |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2011] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (ix, 347 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 305.38/895600903 |
Collana | Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes |
Soggetto topico |
Men - Japan - Identity
Masculinity - Japan Men - Japan Sex role - Japan Gender & Ethnic Studies Social Sciences Gender Studies & Sexuality |
Soggetto non controllato |
anthropologists
anthropology asia scholars asian studies behavioral studies contemporary japan cultural historians early modern japan essay collection geeks gender identity gender roles gender studies generational hermaphrodites historians historical japan japanese culture japanese history japanese men japanese society manhood masculinity mens issues mens roles nonfiction essays samurai shoguns social science sociologists traditional roles |
ISBN |
1-283-27850-2
9786613278500 0-520-95032-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction. Interrogating Men and Masculinities -- Do Guns Have Gender? Technology and Status in Early Modern Japan -- Name and Honor. A Merchant's Seventeenth-Century Memoir -- Empowering the Would-be Warrior Bushidō and the Gendered Bodies of the Japanese Nation -- After Heroism. Must Real Soldiers Die? -- Perpetual Dependency. The Life Course of Male Workers in a Merchant House -- Losing the Union Man. Class and Gender in the Postwar Labor Movement -- Where Have All the Salarymen Gone? Masculinity, Masochism, and Technomobility in Densha Otoko -- Failed Manhood on the Streets of Urban Japan. The Meanings of Self-Reliance for Homeless Men -- Collective Maturation. The Construction of Masculinity in Early Modern Villages -- Climbing Walls. Dismantling Hegemonic Masculinity in a Japanese Sport Subculture -- Not Suitable as a Man? Conscription, Masculinity, and Hermaphroditism in Early Twentieth-Century Japan -- Love Revolution. Anime, Masculinity, and the Future -- Gendering Robots. Posthuman Traditionalism in Japan. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781759703321 |
Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2011] | ||
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