Perfectly Japanese : making families in an era of upheaval /
Are Japanese families in crisis? In this study, Merry Isaacs White looks back at two key moments of 'family making' in the past hundred years - the Meiji era and postwar period - to see how models for the Japanese family have been constructed.
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2002.
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| Col·lecció: | Twentieth-century Japan ;
14. |
| Accés en línia: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=90528 |
Taula de continguts:
- Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Are Japanese Families in Crisis?; 1. Why Families Are a National Security Issue; 2. Family under Construction: One Hundred Years at Home; 3. Families in Postwar Japan: Democracy and Reconstruction; 4. Elemental Families: Starting with Children; 5. Life Choices for Women and Men: The Bounded Realities of Reproduction; 6. Twenty-First-Century Blues: Aging in Families; 7. Marketing the Bite-Size Family: Consuming Images, Supporting Realities; Conclusion: Exceptions Are the Rule: Families as Models of Diversity; Notes; Bibliography; Index.