E E Cook
Biographic Data
| ID | 42458 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E E Cook |
| GIVEN NAMES | E E |
| FAMILY NAME | Cook |
| SIGNATURE | COOK E E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hokkaido University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3301-2476 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Futures in the present: Food allergy disclosures at work
Food and work are often inextricably linked in Japan. However, for those with multiple food allergies, such expectations can be difficult to navigate. Drawing on fieldwork with young adults since 2017, this article explores how they experience workplace expectations to eat and drink together, and the different strategies they use to negotiate eating with others as they move from student life to being a shakaijin (social adult). For people with ex…
(No) Sex in Japan: A Sociology of Sexlessness in Intimate Relationships , by Alice Pacher
Healing Labor: Japanese Sex Work in the Gendered Economy
‘Would it be immoral to work in the sex industry?’ a young Japanese woman, struggling to make ends meet on her low ‘office lady’ salary, asks three politicians on national television. One does not recommend it due to the stigma she will face, the other two are more ambivalent given that the industry is legal (excluding penile-vaginal sex) and encompasses a range of jobs and services. Drawing the reader in by illustrating the links between the eco…
Embodied Memory, Affective Imagination, and Vigilance: Navigating Food Allergies in Japan
Feeling (with) Japan: Affective, sensory and material entanglements in the field
This introduction provides a literature review on the anthropology of the senses and affect, highlighting the theoretical and methodological issues, and pointing at the ideas of “affective practices” or “practices of feeling with the world” as possible solutions. Subsequently, it reviews the literature related to these topics focusing on Japan, showing existing gaps in research. Lastly, it provides an overview of the contributions, in order to se…
Intimate Japan: Ethnographies of Closeness and Conflict
How do couples build intimacy in an era that valorizes independence and self-responsibility? How can a man be a good husband when full-time jobs are scarce? How can unmarried women find fulfillment and recognition outside of normative relationships? How can a person express their sexuality when there is no terminology that feels right? In contemporary Japan, broad social transformations are reflected and refracted in changing intimate relationshi…
Ayako Kano, Japanese Feminist Debates: A Century of Contention on Sex, Love, and Labor
Ayako Kano, Japanese Feminist Debates: A Century of Contention on Sex, Love, and Labor." Japanese Studies, 37(2), pp. 265–266
Adulthood as Action
Before the 1990s, Japanese routes to adulthood appeared to be well structured and strongly linked to the school-to-work transition and other status transitions, such as marriage, parenthood and home ownership. Freeters, part-time workers aged between 15–34 who are neither students, nor housewives, have been at the epicentre of these discussions. By drawing on participant observation and interviews conducted since 2007, this paper explores male fr…
(Dis)Connections and Silence: Experiences of Family and Part-time Work in Japan
Doing work that is characterized by instability and low incomes, Japanese male part-time workers often remain in the natal home well into adulthood even in cases where there is considerable discord and where familial bonds are strained or complicated. Through detailed case studies this article examines how, for some male part-time workers, a desire to disconnect from familial kin in the search for individual autonomy leads to the creation of alte…
Dilemmas of Adulthood: Japanese Women and the Nuances of Long-Term Resistance , by Nancy Rosenberger
Intimate expectations and practices: Freeter relationships and marriage in contemporary Japan
Through an exploration of intimate expectations, ideals, and male freeters' romantic relationships, this article examines the ways in which expectations and practices of intimacy are shifting in gendered ways in contemporary Japan. Whilst women's expectations of intimacy and marital roles have changed and expanded, many male irregular workers continue to practice more conventional ideals of intimacy and gender roles, rooted in notions of responsi…
Expectations of Failure: Maturity and Masculinity for Freeters in Contemporary Japan
Work and masculinity are inextricably linked in post-war Japan. Although the employment system has changed in the last 20 years it appears that social attitudes of what men should do and be are changing at a slower pace. Men and women of varied ages continue to stress that men should be responsible breadwinners, husbands and fathers. Male freeters, many of whom are attempting to pursue and create alternative lifestyles, are often unable and unwil…
Scripted Affects, Branded Selves: Television, Subjectivity, and Capitalism in 1990s Japan
Journal Article Scripted Affects, Branded Selves: Television, Subjectivity, and Capitalism in 1990s Japan Get access Scripted Affects, Branded Selves: Television, Subjectivity, and Capitalism in 1990s Japan, by Gabriella Lukács. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010, 280 pp., $79.95 (hardcover ISBN 978-0-8223-4813-9), $22.95 (paperback ISBN 978-0-822-34824-5) Emma E. COOK Emma E. COOK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Go…
The Children's Crusade and the Role of Youth in the African American Freedom Struggle
Journal Article The Children's Crusade and the Role of Youth in the African American Freedom Struggle Get access Erin Cook, Erin Cook Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Leanna Racine Leanna Racine Erin Cook is Associate Director of the Liberation Curriculum at the Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project and a Teaching Assistant for Professor Clayborne Carson's history course on the African American freedom stru…
Adulthood as Action
Before the 1990s, Japanese routes to adulthood appeared to be well structured and strongly linked to the school-to-work transition and other status transitions, such as marriage, parenthood and home ownership. Freeters, part-time workers aged between 15–34 who are neither students, nor housewives, have been at the epicentre of these discussions. By drawing on participant observation and interviews conducted since 2007, this paper explores male fr…
Intimate expectations and practices: Freeter relationships and marriage in contemporary Japan
Through an exploration of intimate expectations, ideals, and male freeters' romantic relationships, this article examines the ways in which expectations and practices of intimacy are shifting in gendered ways in contemporary Japan. Whilst women's expectations of intimacy and marital roles have changed and expanded, many male irregular workers continue to practice more conventional ideals of intimacy and gender roles, rooted in notions of responsi…
(Dis)Connections and Silence: Experiences of Family and Part-time Work in Japan
Doing work that is characterized by instability and low incomes, Japanese male part-time workers often remain in the natal home well into adulthood even in cases where there is considerable discord and where familial bonds are strained or complicated. Through detailed case studies this article examines how, for some male part-time workers, a desire to disconnect from familial kin in the search for individual autonomy leads to the creation of alte…
The Children's Crusade and the Role of Youth in the African American Freedom Struggle
Journal Article The Children's Crusade and the Role of Youth in the African American Freedom Struggle Get access Erin Cook, Erin Cook Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Leanna Racine Leanna Racine Erin Cook is Associate Director of the Liberation Curriculum at the Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project and a Teaching Assistant for Professor Clayborne Carson's history course on the African American freedom stru…
Scripted Affects, Branded Selves: Television, Subjectivity, and Capitalism in 1990s Japan
Journal Article Scripted Affects, Branded Selves: Television, Subjectivity, and Capitalism in 1990s Japan Get access Scripted Affects, Branded Selves: Television, Subjectivity, and Capitalism in 1990s Japan, by Gabriella Lukács. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010, 280 pp., $79.95 (hardcover ISBN 978-0-8223-4813-9), $22.95 (paperback ISBN 978-0-822-34824-5) Emma E. COOK Emma E. COOK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Go…
Expectations of Failure: Maturity and Masculinity for Freeters in Contemporary Japan
Work and masculinity are inextricably linked in post-war Japan. Although the employment system has changed in the last 20 years it appears that social attitudes of what men should do and be are changing at a slower pace. Men and women of varied ages continue to stress that men should be responsible breadwinners, husbands and fathers. Male freeters, many of whom are attempting to pursue and create alternative lifestyles, are often unable and unwil…
Intimate expectations and practices: Freeter relationships and marriage in contemporary Japan
Through an exploration of intimate expectations, ideals, and male freeters' romantic relationships, this article examines the ways in which expectations and practices of intimacy are shifting in gendered ways in contemporary Japan. Whilst women's expectations of intimacy and marital roles have changed and expanded, many male irregular workers continue to practice more conventional ideals of intimacy and gender roles, rooted in notions of responsi…
Dilemmas of Adulthood: Japanese Women and the Nuances of Long-Term Resistance , by Nancy Rosenberger
Adulthood as Action
Before the 1990s, Japanese routes to adulthood appeared to be well structured and strongly linked to the school-to-work transition and other status transitions, such as marriage, parenthood and home ownership. Freeters, part-time workers aged between 15–34 who are neither students, nor housewives, have been at the epicentre of these discussions. By drawing on participant observation and interviews conducted since 2007, this paper explores male fr…
(Dis)Connections and Silence: Experiences of Family and Part-time Work in Japan
Doing work that is characterized by instability and low incomes, Japanese male part-time workers often remain in the natal home well into adulthood even in cases where there is considerable discord and where familial bonds are strained or complicated. Through detailed case studies this article examines how, for some male part-time workers, a desire to disconnect from familial kin in the search for individual autonomy leads to the creation of alte…
Ayako Kano, Japanese Feminist Debates: A Century of Contention on Sex, Love, and Labor
Ayako Kano, Japanese Feminist Debates: A Century of Contention on Sex, Love, and Labor." Japanese Studies, 37(2), pp. 265–266
Intimate Japan: Ethnographies of Closeness and Conflict
How do couples build intimacy in an era that valorizes independence and self-responsibility? How can a man be a good husband when full-time jobs are scarce? How can unmarried women find fulfillment and recognition outside of normative relationships? How can a person express their sexuality when there is no terminology that feels right? In contemporary Japan, broad social transformations are reflected and refracted in changing intimate relationshi…
Feeling (with) Japan: Affective, sensory and material entanglements in the field
This introduction provides a literature review on the anthropology of the senses and affect, highlighting the theoretical and methodological issues, and pointing at the ideas of “affective practices” or “practices of feeling with the world” as possible solutions. Subsequently, it reviews the literature related to these topics focusing on Japan, showing existing gaps in research. Lastly, it provides an overview of the contributions, in order to se…
Embodied Memory, Affective Imagination, and Vigilance: Navigating Food Allergies in Japan
Healing Labor: Japanese Sex Work in the Gendered Economy
‘Would it be immoral to work in the sex industry?’ a young Japanese woman, struggling to make ends meet on her low ‘office lady’ salary, asks three politicians on national television. One does not recommend it due to the stigma she will face, the other two are more ambivalent given that the industry is legal (excluding penile-vaginal sex) and encompasses a range of jobs and services. Drawing the reader in by illustrating the links between the eco…
(No) Sex in Japan: A Sociology of Sexlessness in Intimate Relationships , by Alice Pacher
Futures in the present: Food allergy disclosures at work
Food and work are often inextricably linked in Japan. However, for those with multiple food allergies, such expectations can be difficult to navigate. Drawing on fieldwork with young adults since 2017, this article explores how they experience workplace expectations to eat and drink together, and the different strategies they use to negotiate eating with others as they move from student life to being a shakaijin (social adult). For people with ex…
Sociology (10 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Japanese History and Culture (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Culinary Culture and Tourism (3 works) · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics (3 works)