Brian J. Mcveigh

Life in a Japanese Women's College (eBook, PDF)

Learning to be Ladylike

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

One third of the Japanese female workforce are 'office ladies' and their training takes place in the many women's junior colleges. Office ladies are low-wage, low-status secretaries who have little or no job security. Brian J. McVeigh draws on his experience as a teacher at one such institution to explore the cultural and social processes used to promote 'femininity' in Japanese women. His detailed and ethnographically-informed study considers how the students of these institutions are socialized to fit their future dual roles of employees and mothers, and illuminates the sociopolitical role that the colleges play in Japanese society as a whole.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136183126
• Artikelnr.: 39910426

Autorenporträt

Brian J McVeigh is Associate Professor, Toyo Gakuen University, Tokyo

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Purposes, Premises, and Problems 2. Mental Acts as Social
Behaviour: Reuniting Body, Mind and Practice 3. The Ethnomorality of
Etiquette: The Cultural Context of Takasu International College 4.
Cultivating 'Ladylike' and 'International' Women at Takasu 5. Takasu as an
Institution 6. Ceremonies of Culture in a Culture of Ceremony 7. Becoming
an 'Office Lady': Engendering Gender through the Body 8. Students: The
Politics of Shyness and Schooling 9. Leaving College Life and Entering the
Adult World 10. Conclusion: Socialization, Gender, Schooling and the State
Bibliography Index