Reconstructing Adult Masculinities

Author : Emma E. Cook

Paperback

Published : Thursday 26 October 2017

ISBN : 9780815375678

Price : €57.32

Description

Over the past two decades, Japans 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 queries how notions of adulthood and masculinity are interwoven and how these ideals are changing in the face of large-scale employment shifts, whilst also considering whether male freeters can become "proper" adult men in contemporary Japan.

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