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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808722803321

Autore

White Merry I. <1941->

Titolo

Perfectly Japanese [[electronic resource] ] : making families in an era of upheaval / / Merry Isaacs White

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002

ISBN

1-59734-801-5

0-520-93659-0

9786612762734

1-282-76273-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (267 p.)

Collana

Twentieth-century Japan ; ; 14

Disciplina

306.85/0952

Soggetti

Families - Japan

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Are Japanese Families in Crisis? -- Part One. Making Family: A Nation Begins at Home -- Part Two. Containing Elements -- Part Three. Consuming as Survival -- Conclusion. Exceptions Are the Rule: Families as Models of Diversity -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.