Format:
Online-Ressource (x, 255 p)
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0520235053
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0520217543
Series Statement:
Twentieth-century Japan 14
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Are Japanese Families in Crisis?; PART ONE: Making Family: A Nation Begins at Home; 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; PART TWO: Containing Elements; 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; PART THREE: Consuming as Survival
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7. Marketing the Bite-Size Family: Consuming Images, Supporting RealitiesConclusion: Exceptions Are the Rule; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520235052
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Perfectly Japanese : Making Families in an Era of Upheaval
Language:
English
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