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The art of the gut [[electronic resource] ] : manhood, power, and ethics in Japanese politics / / Robin M. LeBlanc



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Autore: LeBlanc Robin M. <1966-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The art of the gut [[electronic resource] ] : manhood, power, and ethics in Japanese politics / / Robin M. LeBlanc Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2009
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (251 p.)
Disciplina: 320.952081
Soggetto topico: Masculinity - Political aspects - Japan
Men - Political activity - Japan
Political culture - Japan
Soggetto geografico: Japan Politics and government 1989-
Soggetto non controllato: breadwinners
campaign functions
cheating
citizens referendum movement
democracy
democratic practice
ethical agents
ethical being
ethics
ethnography
gender expectations
gender studies
gendered identity
good man
inheritor
japan
japanese masculinity
japanese men
japanese politics
leadership
male dominated political world
masculine honor
masculinity
morality
political choices
politics
power
rural leaders
strategy sessions
tokyo ward assembly
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Names -- Preface -- Introduction: The Power Remainder -- 1. Breadwinners -- 2. The Inheritor -- 3. The Paradox of Masculine Honor -- 4. Cheating as a Democratic Practice -- 5. The Art of the Gut -- Conclusion: Salad and Cigarettes for Breakfast, or How to Find Democracy by Losing Your Sense of Perspective -- Notes -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: This beautifully written ethnography follows the lives of two very different Japanese men entering political life in two very different communities. One is the rural leader of a citizens' referendum movement, while the other hopes to succeed his father in a Tokyo ward assembly. Fast-paced and engrossing, The Art of the Gut puts the reader behind the scenes to hear speeches, attend campaign functions, and eavesdrop on late-night strategy sessions and one-on-one conversations. In her groundbreaking analysis, Robin M. Le Blanc explores the the two men's differing notions of what is expected of a "good" man and demonstrates how the fundamental desire to be good men constrains their political choices even as it encourages both to become ethical agents. The result is a vibrant and up-to-date picture of politics in Japan today that also addresses masculine gender expectations in a male-dominated political world, the connection between gendered identity and ethical being, and the process by which men who are neither dominant nor marginal to their communities assert themselves both with and against power.
Titolo autorizzato: The art of the gut  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-36001-9
9786612360015
0-520-94505-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910780435103321
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