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This spirited and engaging multidisciplinary volume pins its focus on the lived experiences and cultural depictions of women's mobility and labour in Japan. The theme of "modern girls" continues to offer a captivating window into the changes that women's roles have undergone during the course of the last century.Here we encounter Japanese women inhabiting the most modern of spaces, in newly created professions, moving upward and outward, claiming the public life as their own: shop girls, elevator girls, dance hall dancers, tour bus guides, airline stewardesses, international beauty queens, overseas teachers, corporate soccer players, and even female members of the Self-Defense Forces. Directly linking gender, mobility, and labour in 20th and 21st century Japan, this collection brings to life the ways in which these modern girls--historically and contemporaneously--have influenced social roles, patterns of daily life, and Japan's global image. It is an ideal guidebook for students, scholars, and general readers alike.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Modern Girls on the Go
• Author: Alisa Freedman
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 296
• EAN: 9780804781145
• ISBN: 0804781141
• ID: 02115335
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Weight: 464 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 17. April 2013

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