Alternative masculinities in Japan : the construction and reconstruction of normative gender ideologies
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation examines the experiences of contemporary Japanese male youth who are students at universities in the greater Tokyo metropolitan region. Previous work on the social practices of contemporary Japanese youth has focused on either the decline of Japan due to youth weakness or on youth rejection of the practices of their parents and their happiness with the current state of Japan. However, this study presents a different perspective, locating ambivalence as an important element in youth linguistic and social styles. Ambivalence in this dissertation is conceived of as an evaluative perspective that emerges in the contemporary Japanese university landscape where standard or desirable practices, which are regulated by social frameworks, diverge from speakers' actual practices. In this dissertation, ambivalence is examined across two broad social planes salient for contemporary university students: adulthood, including participation in economic sphere practices, and social persona comprising both explicitly gendered masculine discourses and indirectly directed social persona. Analysis of media representations spanning popular media products and media advertising demonstrates how these products reinforce and represent standard life course practices. Examination of naturally occurring conversations, based on fieldwork in Tokyo-area universities, meanwhile, reveals how linguistic resources including--MASU/-DESU verb forms and first person pronominals are sites where ambivalence with respect to participation in economic sphere practices and to salient social persona is emergent.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2017 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Kroo, Judit |
|---|---|
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. |
| Primary advisor | Matsumoto, Yoshiko, 1954- |
| Thesis advisor | Matsumoto, Yoshiko, 1954- |
| Thesis advisor | Eckert, Penelope |
| Thesis advisor | Podesva, Robert |
| Thesis advisor | Reichert, Jim (James Robert) |
| Advisor | Eckert, Penelope |
| Advisor | Podesva, Robert |
| Advisor | Reichert, Jim (James Robert) |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Judit Kroo. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2017. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2017 by Judit Kroo
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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