Reconstructing Adult Masculinities: Part-time Work in Contemporary Japan

by Emma E. Cook

Book Overview

Over the past two decades, Japan's socioeconomic environment has undergone considerable changes Within this context, "freeters" - young part-time workers aged between fifteen and thirty-four who are not housewives or students - have emerged into the public arena as a social problem. This book, drawing on six years of ethnographic research, takes the lives of male freeters as a lens to examine contemporary notions of masculinity and adulthood. It...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815375670
• ISBN13: 9780815375678
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"