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” (young 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, take the lives of male freeters as a lens to examine contemporary notions of masculinity and adulthood, querying how notions of adulthood and masculinity are interwoven and how these ideals are changing in the face of large-scale employment shifts. At the same time, it asks: in today’s Japan, can (and do) male freeters become ‘proper’ adult men?
Providing a fascinating alternative to the stereotypical idea of the Japanese male as a salaryman, this book will be of huge interest to students and scholars of Japanese culture and society, social and cultural anthropology, gender and men's studies.
外文書商品之書封，為出版社提供之樣本。實際出貨商品，以出版社所提供之現有版本為主。部份書籍，因出版社供應狀況特殊，匯率將依實際狀況做調整。
無庫存之商品，在您完成訂單程序之後，將以空運的方式為你下單調貨。為了縮短等待的時間，建議您將外文書與其他商品分開下單，以獲得最快的取貨速度，平均調貨時間為1~2個月。
為了保護您的權益，「三民網路書店」提供會員七日商品鑑賞期(收到商品為起始日)。
若要辦理退貨，請在商品鑑賞期內寄回，且商品必須是全新狀態與完整包裝(商品、附件、發票、隨貨贈品等)否則恕不接受退貨。
