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The essays in this groundbreaking book explore the meanings of manhood in Japan from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries. Recreating Japanese Men examines a broad range of attitudes regarding properly masculine pursuits and modes of behavior. It charts breakdowns in traditional and conventional societal roles and the resulting crises of masculinity. Contributors address key questions about Japanese manhood ranging from icons such as the samurai to marginal men including hermaphrodites, robots, techno-geeks, rock climbers, shop clerks, soldiers, shoguns, and more. In addition to bringing historical evidence to bear on definitions of masculinity, contributors provide fresh analyses on the ways contemporary modes and styles of masculinity have affected Japanese men's sense of gender as authentic and stable.

Men --- Masculinity --- Sex role --- Identity. --- anthropologists. --- anthropology. --- asia scholars. --- asian studies. --- behavioral studies. --- contemporary japan. --- cultural historians. --- early modern japan. --- essay collection. --- geeks. --- gender identity. --- gender roles. --- gender studies. --- generational. --- hermaphrodites. --- historians. --- historical. --- japan. --- japanese culture. --- japanese history. --- japanese men. --- japanese society. --- manhood. --- masculinity. --- mens issues. --- mens roles. --- nonfiction essays. --- samurai. --- shoguns. --- social science. --- sociologists. --- traditional roles.

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"I got my first job working in a toy store when I was 41 years old." So begins sociologist Christine Williams's description of her stint as a low-wage worker at two national toy store chains: one upscale shop and one big box outlet. In this provocative, perceptive, and lively book, studded with rich observations from the shop floor, Williams chronicles her experiences as a cashier, salesperson, and stocker and provides broad-ranging, often startling, insights into the social impact of shopping for toys. Taking a new look at what selling and buying for kids are all about, she illuminates the politics of how we shop, exposes the realities of low-wage retail work, and discovers how class, race, and gender manifest and reproduce themselves in our shopping-mall culture. Despite their differences, Williams finds that both toy stores perpetuate social inequality in a variety of ways. She observes that workers are often assigned to different tasks and functions on the basis of gender and race; that racial dynamics between black staff and white customers can play out in complex and intense ways; that unions can't protect workers from harassment from supervisors or demeaning customers even in the upscale toy store. And she discovers how lessons that adults teach to children about shopping can legitimize economic and social hierarchies. In the end, however, Inside Toyland is not an anti-consumer diatribe. Williams discusses specific changes in labor law and in the organization of the retail industry that can better promote social justice.

Clerks (Retail trade) --- Consumers --- Discrimination in employment --- Equality --- Toy industry --- Employees. --- Jouets --- Commis vendeurs (Commerce de détail) --- Discrimination dans l'emploi --- Consommateurs --- Egalité (Sociologie) --- Industrie --- Personnel --- Clerks (Salesmen) --- Retail clerks --- Sales clerks --- Stores, Retail --- Clerks --- Retail trade --- Sales personnel --- Leisure industry --- Employees --- E-books --- american economics. --- behavioral studies. --- box outlet stores. --- class issues. --- consumer behavior. --- consumer culture. --- gender issues. --- labor laws. --- low wage jobs. --- national chain stores. --- nonfiction. --- race issues. --- racial dynamics. --- retail industry. --- retail work. --- shopping mall culture. --- shopping politics. --- social hierarchies. --- social impacts. --- social inequality. --- social justice. --- social sciences. --- sociologists. --- sociology. --- toy shopping. --- toy stores. --- union members. --- upscale shops.