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Maeda, Eriko.

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Exploration of Japanese single women's identities in Japan.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Exploration of Japanese single women's identities in Japan./
Author:	Maeda, Eriko.
Description:	295 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-08, Section: A, page: 2816.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-08A.
Subject:	Speech Communication. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3229018
ISBN:	9780542827914

Exploration of Japanese single women's identities in Japan.
Maeda, Eriko.

Exploration of Japanese single women's identities in Japan. - 295 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-08, Section: A, page: 2816.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Pennsylvania State University, 2006.

The number of Japanese women remaining single is rapidly growing: more than one out of five women in their thirties is unmarried as of year 2000 (doubling the proportion in ten years). This increase in singleness is surprising given the status of single women, a highly problematic role in Japanese culture which attaches a high value to motherhood and stigmatizes single women. This study examined Japanese single women's identities through their voices and further investigated social and theoretical implications of this phenomenon. The study was guided by the communication theory of identity and standpoint theory, which conceptualize Japanese single woman's identity as a communication process, constructed through social interactions, and a reflection of her societal position. To examine the way Japanese single women understand their identities, I conducted semi-structured, in-depth interviews of 30 never-married Japanese women in Japanese. The interviewees, 30-56 years old, resided in the Kansai (Osaka) and Tokyo areas of Japan. The interviews were transcribed and content-analyzed in order to elicit themes describing Japanese single women through their own voices. Seventeen themes emerged, revealing the meanings and experiences of singlehood, significant interpersonal relationships, and the meanings of marriage and motherhood for Japanese single women. Specifically, the five themes of "freedom of being single," "aloneness," "self-sufficiency," "comfortable single life," and "deficiency" illustrated Japanese single women's idea about singlehood. Another five themes, "thoughts on work," "no compromise," "behaviors that coincide with age," "self-actualization," and "alternative values," provided detailed accounts of single women's experiences that relate to their singlehood. Three themes, "family dependency and responsibility," "social support," and demonstrated key interpersonal relationships of single women. Lastly, four themes, "wish for marriage," "marriage as constraint," "marriage as right path," and "having children," described single women's view on marriage and motherhood. These themes revealed that single women constructed a dialectic idea about their singlehood, by forming the meanings of work, marriage, and their age, in relation to their family members, other women, and romantic partners. Such a process highlighted the continuous nature of communication that may influence individuals over generations and the women's multiple perspectives that reflect the complex negotiations of a stigmatized identity.

ISBN: 9780542827914Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017408
Speech Communication.

Exploration of Japanese single women's identities in Japan.
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