20th century japan
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Author_Elyssa Faison
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factory managers
gender equality in japan
gender roles
gender women studies
ideal woman
interwar textile industry
japanese femininity
japanese feminism
japanese feminist studies
labor relations
labor-management practices
social reformers
society and industry
women social roles
womens wages
Product details
- ISBN 9780520252967
- Weight: 499g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 23 Oct 2007
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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At the turn of the twentieth century, Japan embarked on a mission to modernize its society and industry. For the first time, young Japanese women were persuaded to leave their families and enter the factory. "Managing Women" focuses on Japan's interwar textile industry, examining how factory managers, social reformers, and the state created visions of a specifically Japanese femininity. Faison finds that female factory workers were constructed as "women" rather than as "workers" and that this womanly ideal was used to develop labor-management practices, inculcate moral and civic values, and develop a strategy for containing union activities and strikes. In an integrated analysis of gender ideology and ideologies of nationalism and ethnicity, Faison shows how this discourse on women's wage work both produced and reflected anxieties about women's social roles in modern Japan.
Elyssa Faison is Associate Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma.
