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Author(s): Kaori H. Okano
ISBN(s): 9780415469418, 0415469414
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 2.64 MB
Year: 2009
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1134030835
ISBN 13: 9781134030835
Author: Kaori Okano

Young women in Japan: Transitions to adulthood received a CHOICE “Outstanding Academic Title of the Year 2010” award from the American Library Association. This book examines young women in Japan, focusing in particular on their transitions to adulthood, their conceptions of adulthood and relations with Japanese society more generally. Drawing on detailed primary research including a year-long observation of high schools and subsequent interviews over a 12 year period, it traces the experiences of a group of working class women from their last year of high-schooling in 1989 through to 2001 as they approached their thirties. It considers important aspects of the transition to adulthood including employment, marriage, divorce, childbirth and custody. It shows how the role and identities of young women changed over the course of the 1990s, exploring the impact of changes within Japanese society and global forces, and explains fully the implications for ordinary young people and their everyday lives. It considers to what extent young women’s perceptions of themselves and society are shifting, and how far this can be explained by external constraints and their own experiences and decisions.
 

Young Women in Japan Transitions to Adulthood 1st Edition Table of contents:

1 Transitions to adulthood

PART I Life stories 1989–2001

2 A longitudinal ethnography

3 Portraits of selected women

Miyuki: From cashier to display specialist

Kanako: A fisherman’s wife

Yayoi: ‘I didn’t think it would be so hard to get a divorce’

Satoko: ‘I’m the breadwinner, and it’s hard’

Noshie: Between two worlds

Sekie: ‘It was worth the hardship to become a nurse in the end’

Tomoe: ‘The Korean bank was comfortable, but agency work suits me better at the moment’

Hatsumi: ‘I’ve lost the custody of my daughter’

PART II Themes from the stories

4 Initial entry into the wider adult world

5 Paid employment: from permanent to non-standard jobs

6 Forming relationships

7 Marriage and divorce in their 20s

8 Decisions and their consequences in paths to adulthood: seeking ‘comfort’ (igokochi)

Conclusions

Notes

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