Kumiko Nemoto
Biographic Data
| ID | 3685278 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kumiko Nemoto |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kumiko |
| FAMILY NAME | Nemoto |
| SIGNATURE | NEMOTO K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Kentucky University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5323-4597 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 164 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
The Origins and Transformations of Conservative Gender Regimes in Germany and Japan
In this article, we extend Walby’s analysis of gender transformations to theorize gender relations in conservative modernizations. We draw insights from a historical comparison of gender inequalities in Germany and Japan, to draw a distinction between conservative authoritarian and conservative democratic gender regimes, and their transformations. Conservative gender regimes, we argue, constitute the domestic as a public sphere and transform thro…
Global Production, Local Racialized Masculinities
Expansion of global production in the automotive industry has made America's local plants increasingly racially varied but also more financially pressured. However, research on global firms under financial pressure that focuses on the workplace dynamics of managers and production workers of different races and nationalities remains limited. This article examines the organizational processes of masculinity enactment of three groups of men-Japanese…
Co-constituting migrant strangers and foreigners
This study examines the experiences of diverse groups of migrants in a highly developed non-Western society: Japan. Using critical analysis of literature and semi-structural interview data with 50 Japanese nationals and 109 foreign migrants, it explores how Japan, which sees itself as a relatively racially homogeneous society, operates in response to increasing demands for migrants, and how the structures of the state and interactions of dominant…
Aya Ezawa, Single Mothers in Contemporary Japan
Aya Ezawa, Single Mothers in Contemporary Japan: Motherhood, Class, and Reproductive Practice." Japanese Studies, 37(2), pp. 267–268
Too Few Women at the Top
The Curious History of Love
When culture resists progress
While the rise of non-regular women workers in Japanese firms drew much attention, little attention has been paid to employment barriers that regular women workers continue to face in Japanese firms today. Based on in-depth interviews with 64 men and women workers, this article examines gender inequality in Japanese firms in which women's structural power is extremely low. Using the analytical framework of organizational masculinity, it explores …
Never-Married Employed Men's Gender Beliefs and Ambivalence Toward Matrimony in Japan
Based on 25 interviews with educated and employed never-married men in Japan, this article examines how the diminished social norm to marry by a certain age, never-married men's beliefs regarding gender in marriage, and the value these men place on individual autonomy all contribute to a trend in late marriage. We argue that the diminished social pressure to marry and the changing age norm do further men's ambivalence toward marriage by allowing …
Long Working Hours and the Corporate Gender Divide in Japan
While the workplace custom of working long hours has been known to exacerbate gender inequality, few have investigated the organizational mechanisms by which long working hours translate into and reinforce the power and status differences between men and women in the workplace. Drawing on 64 in‐depth interviews with workers at financial and cosmetics companies in Japan, this article examines three circumstances in which a culture of long working …
Gendered Trajectories
Racing Romance
Racing Romance sheds special light on the bonds between whites and Asian Americans. Incorporating life-history narrative and interviews with those currently or previously involved with an interracial partner, Kumiko Nemoto addresses the contradictions and tensions--a result of race, class, and gender--that Asian Americans and white experience."--Back cover
Climbing the Hierarchy of Masculinity
Postponed Marriage
Sociologists have argued that marriage today is based on individual desires, democratic contracts, and self-development. However, feminist scholars have criticized such a view of modern marriage, arguing that it obscures persistent inequality and social restrictions in marriage. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 26 highly educated Japanese women, this article argues that persistent gender inequalities shape women's decisions to postpone marriag…
Intimacy, Desire, and the Construction of Self in Relationships between Asian American Women and White American Men
Intimacy, Desire, and the Construction of Self in Relationships between Asian American Women and White American Men Kumiko Nemoto (bio) Introduction This study examines interracial rrelationships between Asian Ameri-cans and white Americans. The goal is to understand how the social construction of sexual desire is shaped by race and gender. This study begins with the argument that racialized images and discourses on "Asian women" and "White men" …
Postponed Marriage
Sociologists have argued that marriage today is based on individual desires, democratic contracts, and self-development. However, feminist scholars have criticized such a view of modern marriage, arguing that it obscures persistent inequality and social restrictions in marriage. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 26 highly educated Japanese women, this article argues that persistent gender inequalities shape women's decisions to postpone marriag…
When culture resists progress
While the rise of non-regular women workers in Japanese firms drew much attention, little attention has been paid to employment barriers that regular women workers continue to face in Japanese firms today. Based on in-depth interviews with 64 men and women workers, this article examines gender inequality in Japanese firms in which women's structural power is extremely low. Using the analytical framework of organizational masculinity, it explores …
Intimacy, Desire, and the Construction of Self in Relationships between Asian American Women and White American Men
Intimacy, Desire, and the Construction of Self in Relationships between Asian American Women and White American Men Kumiko Nemoto (bio) Introduction This study examines interracial rrelationships between Asian Ameri-cans and white Americans. The goal is to understand how the social construction of sexual desire is shaped by race and gender. This study begins with the argument that racialized images and discourses on "Asian women" and "White men" …
Long Working Hours and the Corporate Gender Divide in Japan
While the workplace custom of working long hours has been known to exacerbate gender inequality, few have investigated the organizational mechanisms by which long working hours translate into and reinforce the power and status differences between men and women in the workplace. Drawing on 64 in‐depth interviews with workers at financial and cosmetics companies in Japan, this article examines three circumstances in which a culture of long working …
Racing Romance
Racing Romance sheds special light on the bonds between whites and Asian Americans. Incorporating life-history narrative and interviews with those currently or previously involved with an interracial partner, Kumiko Nemoto addresses the contradictions and tensions--a result of race, class, and gender--that Asian Americans and white experience."--Back cover
Climbing the Hierarchy of Masculinity
Too Few Women at the Top
The Origins and Transformations of Conservative Gender Regimes in Germany and Japan
In this article, we extend Walby’s analysis of gender transformations to theorize gender relations in conservative modernizations. We draw insights from a historical comparison of gender inequalities in Germany and Japan, to draw a distinction between conservative authoritarian and conservative democratic gender regimes, and their transformations. Conservative gender regimes, we argue, constitute the domestic as a public sphere and transform thro…
Never-Married Employed Men's Gender Beliefs and Ambivalence Toward Matrimony in Japan
Based on 25 interviews with educated and employed never-married men in Japan, this article examines how the diminished social norm to marry by a certain age, never-married men's beliefs regarding gender in marriage, and the value these men place on individual autonomy all contribute to a trend in late marriage. We argue that the diminished social pressure to marry and the changing age norm do further men's ambivalence toward marriage by allowing …
Co-constituting migrant strangers and foreigners
This study examines the experiences of diverse groups of migrants in a highly developed non-Western society: Japan. Using critical analysis of literature and semi-structural interview data with 50 Japanese nationals and 109 foreign migrants, it explores how Japan, which sees itself as a relatively racially homogeneous society, operates in response to increasing demands for migrants, and how the structures of the state and interactions of dominant…
Intimacy, Desire, and the Construction of Self in Relationships between Asian American Women and White American Men
Intimacy, Desire, and the Construction of Self in Relationships between Asian American Women and White American Men Kumiko Nemoto (bio) Introduction This study examines interracial rrelationships between Asian Ameri-cans and white Americans. The goal is to understand how the social construction of sexual desire is shaped by race and gender. This study begins with the argument that racialized images and discourses on "Asian women" and "White men" …
Climbing the Hierarchy of Masculinity
Postponed Marriage
Sociologists have argued that marriage today is based on individual desires, democratic contracts, and self-development. However, feminist scholars have criticized such a view of modern marriage, arguing that it obscures persistent inequality and social restrictions in marriage. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 26 highly educated Japanese women, this article argues that persistent gender inequalities shape women's decisions to postpone marriag…
Racing Romance
Racing Romance sheds special light on the bonds between whites and Asian Americans. Incorporating life-history narrative and interviews with those currently or previously involved with an interracial partner, Kumiko Nemoto addresses the contradictions and tensions--a result of race, class, and gender--that Asian Americans and white experience."--Back cover
Gendered Trajectories
Long Working Hours and the Corporate Gender Divide in Japan
While the workplace custom of working long hours has been known to exacerbate gender inequality, few have investigated the organizational mechanisms by which long working hours translate into and reinforce the power and status differences between men and women in the workplace. Drawing on 64 in‐depth interviews with workers at financial and cosmetics companies in Japan, this article examines three circumstances in which a culture of long working …
When culture resists progress
While the rise of non-regular women workers in Japanese firms drew much attention, little attention has been paid to employment barriers that regular women workers continue to face in Japanese firms today. Based on in-depth interviews with 64 men and women workers, this article examines gender inequality in Japanese firms in which women's structural power is extremely low. Using the analytical framework of organizational masculinity, it explores …
Never-Married Employed Men's Gender Beliefs and Ambivalence Toward Matrimony in Japan
Based on 25 interviews with educated and employed never-married men in Japan, this article examines how the diminished social norm to marry by a certain age, never-married men's beliefs regarding gender in marriage, and the value these men place on individual autonomy all contribute to a trend in late marriage. We argue that the diminished social pressure to marry and the changing age norm do further men's ambivalence toward marriage by allowing …
The Curious History of Love
Too Few Women at the Top
Aya Ezawa, Single Mothers in Contemporary Japan
Aya Ezawa, Single Mothers in Contemporary Japan: Motherhood, Class, and Reproductive Practice." Japanese Studies, 37(2), pp. 267–268
Co-constituting migrant strangers and foreigners
This study examines the experiences of diverse groups of migrants in a highly developed non-Western society: Japan. Using critical analysis of literature and semi-structural interview data with 50 Japanese nationals and 109 foreign migrants, it explores how Japan, which sees itself as a relatively racially homogeneous society, operates in response to increasing demands for migrants, and how the structures of the state and interactions of dominant…
The Origins and Transformations of Conservative Gender Regimes in Germany and Japan
In this article, we extend Walby’s analysis of gender transformations to theorize gender relations in conservative modernizations. We draw insights from a historical comparison of gender inequalities in Germany and Japan, to draw a distinction between conservative authoritarian and conservative democratic gender regimes, and their transformations. Conservative gender regimes, we argue, constitute the domestic as a public sphere and transform thro…
Global Production, Local Racialized Masculinities
Expansion of global production in the automotive industry has made America's local plants increasingly racially varied but also more financially pressured. However, research on global firms under financial pressure that focuses on the workplace dynamics of managers and production workers of different races and nationalities remains limited. This article examines the organizational processes of masculinity enactment of three groups of men-Japanese…
Sociology (12 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Inequality (5 works) · Masculinity (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Demographic economics (4 works)