02863nam 22006614a 450 991080872280332120200520144314.01-59734-801-50-520-93659-097866127627341-282-76273-710.1525/9780520936591(CKB)1000000000005990(EBL)223560(OCoLC)475928400(SSID)ssj0000219753(PQKBManifestationID)11192087(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000219753(PQKBWorkID)10229569(PQKB)10099535(StDuBDS)EDZ0000083898(MiAaPQ)EBC223560(DE-B1597)520964(OCoLC)52843425(DE-B1597)9780520936591(Au-PeEL)EBL223560(CaPaEBR)ebr10051167(CaONFJC)MIL276273(EXLCZ)99100000000000599020020408d2002 uy 0engurun#---|u||utxtccrPerfectly Japanese making families in an era of upheaval /Merry Isaacs White1st ed.Berkeley University of California Pressc20021 online resource (267 p.)Twentieth-century Japan ;14Description based upon print version of record.0-520-21754-3 0-520-23505-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 --IndexAre 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.Twentieth-century Japan ;14.FamiliesJapanFamilies306.85/0952White Merry I.1941-1599141MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910808722803321Perfectly Japanese3921701UNINA