Women Managers in Neoliberal Japan: Gender, Precarious Labour and Everyday Lives

ISBN-13: 9781032174617 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 176 str.

Swee-Lin Ho

Opis

This book is about the varying difficulties experienced by women with professional careers in post-bubble Japan, where they are persistently treated by the state and employers as a pool of cheap, contingent resources for the benefit of the broader economy.

Spis treści

1 ‘Womenomics’: To Make Women Shine or Die?

2 In the Media: As Flowers, Parasites, Loser Dogs and Demons

3 In the Company of Co-Workers: Performing Gender and Drinking for Survival

4 In the Office: As Nominal Managers and Corporate Props

5 To the State: As Victims and Perpetrators of Power Harassment

6 A Shiny or More Precarious Future?

　

　

　

Appendix: Chart of Subjects’ Profiles

O autorze

Swee-Lin Ho is Associate Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore. Her research interests include the neoliberal transformations of work, new practices of friendship; changing cityscapes and the urban night space; ethnographic field methods and ‘studying up’ approach; globalization of East Asian popular culture; emergent corporate cultures; the commercialization of intimacy; social formations of gender; and the political economy of the global classical music industry.

She worked for many years in various international cities as auditor, financial journalist and corporate executive before completing her graduate studies at Sophia University and later the University of Oxford. She has taught in South Korea, where she was also a Korea Foundation Research Fellow studying the conflicting desires of gendered selfhood, nationhood and cultural identities through the globalization of contemporary Korean popular culture.