Notes
M. Castells, The Rise of the Network Society, Vol. 1, 2nd edn. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000, 4.
N. Gottlieb and M. McLelland, Japanese Cybercultures (Routledge, 2003) and other such books have begun to address this within specific contexts.
See, for example, Matthews Hamabata, The Crested Kimono: Love and Power in the Japanese Family (Cornell University Press, 1990); Anne Imamura, Urban Japanese Housewives (University of Hawaii Press, 1987); Sumiko Iwao, The Japanese Woman: Traditional Image and Changing Reality (New York: The Free Press, 1993); Dorinne Kondo, Crafting Selves (University of Chicago Press, 1990); Nancy Rosenberger, Gambling with Virtue (University of Hawaii Press, 2001).
See James Roberson, Japanese Working Class Lives (Routledge, 1998); also Glenda Roberts, Staying on the Line: Blue Collar Women in Contemporary Japan (University of Hawaii Press, 1994).
Iwai Hachirō, ‘Josei no raifukōsu to gakureki’, in Kikuchi Jōji (ed.), Gendai Nihon no kaisō kōzō Dai 3-kan: Kyōiku to shakai idō. Tokyo: Daigaku Shuppankai, 1990, 155–184.