Perfectly Japanese : making families in an era of upheaval / / Merry Isaacs White

• Autore: White Merry I. <1941->
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (267 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.85/0952
• Soggetto topico: Families - Japan
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Perfectly Japanese
• ISBN: 1-59734-801-5; 0-520-93659-0; 9786612762734; 1-282-76273-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808722803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Twentieth-century Japan ; ; 14.