Crafting Selves : Power, Gender, and Discourses of Identity in a Japanese Workplace

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Label

Crafting Selves : Power, Gender, and Discourses of Identity in a Japanese Workplace

Title remainder

Power, Gender, and Discourses of Identity in a Japanese Workplace

Creator

• Kondo, Dorinne K

Subject

• Electronic books
• Group identity
• Group identity -- Japan
• Japan
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies
• Self-perception in women
• Self-perception in women -- Japan
• Women -- Employment
• Women -- Employment -- Japan
• Women -- Identity
• Women -- Japan -- Economic conditions
• Women -- Japan -- Identity
• Women -- Japan -- Social conditions
• Women -- Social conditions
• Women -- Economic conditions

Language

eng

Summary

""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 compl

Member of

• Ebook Central Academic Complete

Cataloging source

EBLCP

Dewey number

• 305.42
• 305.420952

Index

no index present

LC call number

HD6197 .K658 2009

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries