4-0445 PORTRAITS OF WORKING WOMEN IN RECESSIONARY JAPAN: CONTINUITY AND CHANGE

Friday, November 18, 2011: 10:15-12:00

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

This session would be of particular interest to:
Those involved in mentoring activities, Students, Practicing and Applied Anthropologists

Organizers: Anne Stefanie Aronsson (Yale University)

Chairs: Swee Lin Ho (The Catholic University of Korea)

Discussants: Glenda S Roberts (Waseda University)

10:15

Tokyo At Ten: Establishing Difference Through the Friendship Networks of Women Executives In Japan

Swee Lin Ho (The Catholic University of Korea)

10:30

Japanese Professional Women: Through the Labyrinth of Their Working Lives

Anne Stefanie Aronsson (Yale University)

10:45

Femininity Versus Masculinity? Linguistic Choices of the Women In Charge

Claude-Eve Dubuc (University of Tokyo)

11:00

Does Certification and Self-Governance Professionalize Cooperative Home-Care Workers? Kôreikyô’s Co-Operative Model of Home Care

Robert C Marshall (Western Washington University )

11:15

"Carrying On" Despite the Recession: Artist-potters’ Survival Strategies In Kagoshima

Nancy Earth (University of Otago)

11:30

Discussant

Glenda S Roberts (Waseda University)

11:45

Discussion

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