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Fighting for Foreigners
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 240

Fighting for Foreigners

Shipper details how, in response to an influx of foreigners from Asia and Latin America in recent decades, Japanese citizens have established a variety of local advocacy groups to help immigrants secure access to social services, economic equity, and political rights.

Understanding Japanese Society
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 284

Understanding Japanese Society

As Japan enters the 21st century with a new emperor, this title continues to be an indispensable guide through often enigmatic and historical idiosyncrasies of Japanese culture and politics that are often confusing to the outsider. This title includes information on the latest social developments, customs, rituals, business culture, medicine and arts.

Marketing Across Cultures in Asia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 196

Marketing Across Cultures in Asia

"A practical, step-by-step guide for international marketers who are targeting the challenging markets of the Asia-Pacific region. Packed with useful information and real-world examples, Marketing Across Cultures in Asia is based on the two authors' 35 years of combined hands-on experience of managing, marketing and negotiating in Asia."

Bishop David Evans and his family
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 713

Bishop David Evans and his family

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The Womanpriest
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 261

The Womanpriest

Macrina McGrath, a young 23-year-old Catholic ex-Marine and unwed mother, begins to see cracks in the Church she grew up loving. Bad priests preying on children, harsh treatment of the divorced and LGBTQ, a deep-seated and toxic sexism, and archaic dogmas force her to choose between leaving the Church or trying to make it better. Pursuing graduate school in theology at Georgetown and a trip to India help form her resolve: She will stop at nothing to take the Church out of the Middle Ages and deliver women from their abject status. Macrina McGrath joins and soon after heads the excommunicated Womanpriest movement and, with the help of the Archbishop of Boston, begins an ascent she never imagined. But her love for Ezra, a Jewish physicist and colleague at Amherst where they teach, is getting in the way.

Family and Social Policy in Japan
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 260

Family and Social Policy in Japan

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Reconstructing Adult Masculinities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 375

Reconstructing Adult Masculinities

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-03-22
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Over the past two decades, Japan’s socioeconomic environment has undergone considerable changes prompted by both a long recession and the relaxation of particular labour laws in the 1990s and 2000s. Within this context, "freeters", part-time workers aged between fifteen and thirty-four who are not housewives or students, 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 ideas and experiences of adult masculinities. It queries how notions of adulthood and masculinity are interwoven and how these ideals are changing in the face of large-scale employment shifts. Highli...

The Politics of Work–Family Policies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 289

The Politics of Work–Family Policies

This book assesses which work-family policies work best, and explains why they are unlikely to be adopted everywhere.

Healing Labor
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 312

Healing Labor

“An intelligent and insightful study” of the cultural and economic factors surrounding female sex workers in Japan (Nicole Constable, author of Maid to Order in Hong Kong: Stories of Migrant Workers). Contemporary Japan is home to one of the world’s largest and most diversified markets for sex. Widely understood to be socially necessary, the sex industry operates and recruits openly, staffed by a diverse group of women who are attracted by its high pay and the promise of autonomy—but whose work remains stigmatized and unmentionable. Based on fieldwork with adult Japanese women in Tokyo’s sex industry, Healing Labor explores the relationship between how sex workers think about what ...

Death Without Weeping
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 328

Death Without Weeping

A "womanly hearted" account of the everyday experience of scarcity, sickness, and death that centers on the lives of women and children of a hillside favela in Northeast Brazil.