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ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-osu13020173712021-08-03T06:02:13Z Dismembered remembrance: female entrepreneurship and the construction and marketing of Japanese modern identity in the twentieth century Hinz, Christienne <p>This work examines female entrepreneurship in Japan from approximately 1870 to the present. The methods that I have employed include statistical analyses of the census, a large-scale, cross-industrial survey, analysis of autobiographical and biographical texts, oral histories, intensive interviews, and participant observation. I have concluded that entrepreneurship among Japanese women emerged concurrently with the commercialization of the Japanese economy of the 17th century; furthermore, entrepreneurship among Japanese women still plays an important role in the contemporary Japanese economy and culture.</p><p>However, entrepreneurship among Japanese women was strongly impacted by the evolution of modern industrial capitalism. Japan's 19th century "modernization" required a socio-cultural revolution, driven by elites, which by the postwar period, had successfully and severely circumscribed the normative roles that women were allowed to play in the "modern" economy and society. To the extent that the new, elite, universal gender norm was absorbed by the Japanese middle class of the postwar period, entrepreneurship among women vanished, and would not return until women who had adopted such norms as their own reached post-menopausal age, when they reappeared in the mid-1980s and demand access to the male-gendered realm of the modern business system.</p><p>However, the elite construct was inapplicable to the realities of working class women, and to middle class women who had married into the working class. Among these women, the pre-modern gender norm survived, as did many elements of the pre-modern business system in which a women's economic agency was both normal and normative. Such women have either rejected the elite norm, or employ various methods to erase or minimize their norm-aberrant economic behaviour.</p><p>Ultimately, the existence of premodern business structures in which women are fully integrated as owners, decision-makers, and economic agents is of vital importance to Japanese constructions of an authentic, "traditional" Japanese Self. Importantly, the erasure and invisibility of Japanese women entrepreneurs has also been part and parcel of the construction of modern Japan's national identity.</p> 2001 English text The Ohio State University / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1302017371 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1302017371 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws.
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