Emergent Identity Work and Institutional Change: The 'Quiet' Revolution of Japanese Middle-Class Housewives

Organization Studies

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 423-450

  Leung, Aegean ^a   Zietsma, Charlene ^b   Peredo, Ana Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

gender role identity; identity work; institutional change

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894593976     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840613498529     Document Type: Article

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