" Ogasawara treats women office workers not simply as oppressed subordinates but as active players who express their dissatifaction in highly nuanced public ways, engaging the hierarchies to their own ends, manipulating the dependencies of their male coworkers, and turning subordination on its head. Along the way, she slashes and burns a lot of old chestnuts stereotypes about men, women, and work in Japan. A wonderful book. "

" A pleasure to read, and an example of fine scholarship. Ogasawara ably demonstrates the numerous ways in which women office workers, out of frustration with their demeaning jobs, resist their male managers and keep them cowering. "

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