Life in a Japanese Women's College : Learning to be Ladylike
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
ISBN-10
0415144566
ISBN-13
9780415144568
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 5th, 1996
Print length
280 Pages
Weight
476 grams
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One third of Japan's women workers are 'office ladies' - low status, low security secretaries, who are trained at Junior Colleges. The author, who taught at such a College, discusses life there, and their cultural and sociopolitical role.
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.
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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