Book Review: Romit Dasgupta, Re-reading the Salaryman in Japan: Crafting Masculinities

Abidin, Crystal

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Authors

Abidin, Crystal

Date

2013

Type

Journal Article

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Abidin, C. 2013. Book Review: Romit Dasgupta, Re-reading the Salaryman in Japan: Crafting Masculinities. Limina: a journal of historical and cultural studies. 19 (1).

Source Title

Limina: a journal of historical and cultural studies

Additional URLs

https://www.limina.arts.uwa.edu.au/volumes/19/dasgupta

ISSN

1324-4558

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

School

School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry

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Remarks

This article is originally published in Limina, University of Western Australia, 2013.

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/79380

Collection

Curtin Research Publications

Abstract

It is easy to see why Romit Dasgupta’s PhD thesis was awarded the Asian Studies Association of Australia’s President’s Award and DK Prize for Best Doctoral Thesis in 2006. Adapted into Re-reading the Salaryman in Japan: Crafting Masculinties, this latest addition to the Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) East Asia Series is intimate, engaging, and especially timely amidst piped interest in corporate culture and masculinity in Japan. Coming from an intersection of Japanese Studies and Gender Studies, the monograph focuses on the markers and contradictions of being a ‘corporate soldier’, a salaryman – generally male, white-collar office workers’ – situated within the climate of postbubble Japan.

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