Dilemmas of adulthood Japanese women and the nuances of long-term resistance
" ... Rosenberger investigates the nature of long-term resistance in a longitudinal study of more than fifty Japanese women over two decades. Between 25 and 35 years of age when first interviewed in 1993, the women represent a generation straddling the stable roles of post-war modernity and the...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Honolulu
University of Hawaiʻi Press
2014, 2014
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | " ... Rosenberger investigates the nature of long-term resistance in a longitudinal study of more than fifty Japanese women over two decades. Between 25 and 35 years of age when first interviewed in 1993, the women represent a generation straddling the stable roles of post-war modernity and the risky but exciting possibilities of late modernity. By exploring the challenges they pose to cultural codes, Rosenberger builds a conceptual framework of long-term resistance that undergirds the struggles and successes of modern Japanese women. Her findings resonate with broader anthropological questions about how change happens in our global-local era and suggests a useful model with which to analyze ordinary lives in the late modern world"--Publisher |
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| Physical Description: | x, 209 pages |
| ISBN: | 9780824870898 0824836960 0824838874 0824870891 9780824836962 9780824838874 |