Nightwork : Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club / / Anne Allison

• Autore: Allison Anne
• Pubblicazione: Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , [2009]; ©1994
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (228 p.)
• Disciplina: 394.120952135
• Soggetto topico: Bars (Drinking establishments) - Japan - Tokyo; Entertaining - Japan - Tokyo; Male friendship - Japan - Tokyo; Corporate culture - Japan - Tokyo; Cocktail servers - Japan - Tokyo
• Soggetto geografico: Tokyo (Japan) Social life and customs
• Soggetto non controllato: gender and sexuality, masculinity studies, japan, japanese, corporate culture, tokyo, hostess, club, businessmen, white collar men, masculine identity, nightlife, ethnography, feminist, feminism, anthropology, labor, behavior, gendered relations, sociology, economics, ritualized male dominance, entertainment, phallic, bars, drinking, workers, customs, bonding, impotence, rituals
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prelude -- Introduction -- Part One. Ethnography of a Hostess Club -- Part Two. Mapping the Nightlife within Cultural Categories -- Part Three. Male Rituals and Masculinity -- References -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In Nightwork, Anne Allison opens a window onto Japanese corporate culture and gender identities. Allison performed the ritualized tasks of a hostess in one of Tokyo's many "hostess clubs": pouring drinks, lighting cigarettes, and making flattering or titillating conversation with the businessmen who came there on company expense accounts. Her book critically examines how such establishments create bonds among white-collar men and forge a masculine identity that suits the needs of their corporations. Allison describes in detail a typical company outing to such a club-what the men do, how they interact with the hostesses, the role the hostess is expected to play, and the extent to which all of this involves "play" rather than "work." Unlike previous books on Japanese nightlife, Allison's ethnography of one specific hostess club (here referred to as Bijo) views the general phenomenon from the eyes of a woman, hostess, and feminist anthropologist. Observing that clubs like Bijo further a kind of masculinity dependent on the gestures and labors of women, Allison seeks to uncover connections between such behavior and other social, economic, sexual, and gendered relations. She argues that Japanese corporate nightlife enables and institutionalizes a particular form of ritualized male dominance: in paying for this entertainment, Japanese corporations not only give their male workers a self-image as phallic man, but also develop relationships to work that are unconditional and unbreakable. This is a book that will appeal to anyone interested in gender roles or in contemporary Japanese society.
• Titolo autorizzato: Nightwork
• ISBN: 0-226-01488-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996248210303316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno