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Uniforms are not unique to Japan, but their popularity there suggests important linkages: material culture, politico-economic projects, bodily management, and the construction of subjectivity are all connected to the wearing of uniforms. This book examines what the donning of uniforms says about cultural psychology and the expression of economic nationalism in Japan. Conformity in dress is especially apparent amongst students, who are required to wear uniforms by most schools. Drawing on concrete examples, the author focuses particularly on student uniforms, which are key socializing objects in Japans politico-economic order, but also examines office ladies (secretaries), salary men (white collar workers), service personnel, and housewives, who wear a type of uniformed dress. Arguing that uniforms can be viewed as material markers of a life cycle managed by powerful politico-economic institutions, he also shows that resistance to official state projects is expressed by anti-uniforming modes of self

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Zaradenie knihy Knihy po anglicky Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Cultural studies

• Celý názov: Wearing Ideology
• Podnázov: State, Schooling and Self-Presentation in Japan
• Autor: Brian J. McVeigh
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Väzba: Brožovaná
• Počet strán: 244
• EAN: 9781859734902
• ISBN: 1859734901
• ID: 05119711
• Nakladateľ: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Hmotnosť: 358 g
• Rozmery: 234 × 160 × 14 mm
• Dátum vydania: 01. September 2000

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