Shout out from Publishers Weekly
PW gave my forthcoming book a nice review in November (the book arrives in January, see links to the left):
"With compassion and warm wit, the author talks to successful Japanese women -- from hip-hop superstars to senior corporate executives and entrepreneurs -- about their education, careers, personal lives and aspirations, and about the social norms they face as they carve out a bold new existence in a country wedded to tradition. Chambers portrays her subjects as social pioneers operating in a cultural vacuum, without the support of a widespread women's movement. Writing in a hip, visually vivid and entertaining style, Chambers fluently places the courage and isolation of these women in a briefly sketched social and economic context, noting that 'today's young career women -- entrepreneurial, independent -- have more [in common] with their hard-working grandmothers than they do with their Bubble Economy housewife mothers.'" -- Publishers Weekly