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Becker, Sawa Kurotani.

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Transnational home-making and the construction of gender and cultural identities among expatriate Japanese wives in the United States.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Transnational home-making and the construction of gender and cultural identities among expatriate Japanese wives in the United States./
Author:	Becker, Sawa Kurotani.
Description:	302 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 60-04, Section: A, page: 1202.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International60-04A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9925362
ISBN:	9780599250338

Transnational home-making and the construction of gender and cultural identities among expatriate Japanese wives in the United States.
Becker, Sawa Kurotani.

Transnational home-making and the construction of gender and cultural identities among expatriate Japanese wives in the United States. - 302 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 60-04, Section: A, page: 1202.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Colorado at Boulder, 1999.

This dissertation centers on the relationship between Japanese capitalism and middle-class Japanese women's home-making abroad. While Japan's globalizing economy makes a job transfer to the United States commonplace in Japanese corporate workers' life-long career, Japanese transnational corporations need workers who are international enough to function well in a foreign environment, but not so cosmopolitan that they would lose steadfast loyalty to their companies and their country of origin.

ISBN: 9780599250338Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

Transnational home-making and the construction of gender and cultural identities among expatriate Japanese wives in the United States.
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520 $a This dissertation centers on the relationship between Japanese capitalism and middle-class Japanese women's home-making abroad. While Japan's globalizing economy makes a job transfer to the United States commonplace in Japanese corporate workers' life-long career, Japanese transnational corporations need workers who are international enough to function well in a foreign environment, but not so cosmopolitan that they would lose steadfast loyalty to their companies and their country of origin.
520 $a Women's domestic labor is a key to managing this paradox of globalizing capitalism. As an extension of their ascribed feminine role of home-making, Japanese corporate wives are expected to accompany their husbands to foreign stations, and to reproduce Japanese domestic spaces. In this way, the identity of expatriate family members are protected against a "foreign other."
520 $a The main question of this project is whether Japanese corporate wives use their transnational migration as an opportunity to question, challenge, and renegotiate their gender and cultural identities, despite their culturally conservative positioning. My ethnographic fieldwork in three U.S. cities revealed that transnational home-making has unintended effects on expatriate Japanese wives' notions of home and self. Their exposure to foreign ideas and lifestyles in the United States often gives them an opportunity to reflect on and even alter their family relationships, their gender roles, and their "Japanese" identity.
520 $a These modifications, in turn, indicate that gendered subjects respond, resist and work on transnational forces through an innovative---if at times conflicting---combination of strategies in their specific local and global milieu. Thus, the results of this research not only complement the existing literature on transnationalism and globalization, but also contribute to the literature on gender, cultural and national identities, and selfhood.
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