Perfectly Japanese : making families in an era of upheaval / Merry Isaacs White.

Author
White, Merry I., 1941- [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002.
Description
x, 255 pages ; 24 cm

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    Are Japanese families in crisis? In this dynamic and substantive 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. The models had little to do with families of their eras and even less to do with families today, she finds. She vividly portrays the everyday reality of a range of families: young married couples who experience fleeting togetherness until the first child is born; a family separated by job shifts; a family with a grandmother as babysitter; a marriage without children.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Are Japanese families in crisis? pt. 1. Making family--A nation begins at home. Why families are a national security issue
    • Family under construction: one hundred years at home
    • Families in postwar Japan: democracy and reconstruction
    • pt. 2. Containing elements. Elemental families: starting with children
    • Life choices for men and women: the bounded realities of reproduction
    • Twenty-first-century blues: aging in families
    • pt. 3. Consuming as survival.
    • Marketing the bite-size family: consuming images, supporting realities
    • Exceptions are the rule.
    ISBN
    • 0520217543 ((Cloth ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780520217546 ((Cloth ; : alk. paper))
    • 0520235053 ((Paper ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780520235052 ((Paper ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2002005535
    OCLC
    49558889
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