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Perfectly Japanese : making families in an era of upheaval / Merry Isaacs White.
Author
White, Merry I., 1941-
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English
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Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002.
Description
x, 255 pages ; 24 cm
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Stokes Library - Wallace Hall (SPR)
HQ682 .W484 2002
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Families
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Japan
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Series
Twentieth-century Japan ; 14.
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Twentieth-century Japan ; 14
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Summary note
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.
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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.
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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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