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Manners and mischief [[electronic resource] ] : gender, power, and etiquette in Japan / / edited by Jan Bardsley and Laura Miller



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Titolo: Manners and mischief [[electronic resource] ] : gender, power, and etiquette in Japan / / edited by Jan Bardsley and Laura Miller Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, Calif. ; ; Los Angeles, Calif., : University of California Press, 2011
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (301 p.)
Disciplina: 395.0952
Soggetto topico: Etiquette - Japan
Sex role - Japan
Power (Social sciences) - Japan
Soggetto geografico: Japan Social life and customs
Soggetto non controllato: advice literature
asia scholars
behavior guides
class differences
conformity
cultural transformations
culture studies
early modern period
etiquette guides
everyday life
gay bars
geisha party
gender differences
gender norms
gender studies
japan
japanese culture
japanese society
modern japan
national identity
nonfiction
power dynamics
self help guides
social analysis
social etiquette
social history
subversion
subway travel
Altri autori: BardsleyJan  
MillerLaura <1953->  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Manners and Mischief: Introduction -- Chapter 1. Genji Guides, or Minding Murasaki -- Chapter 2. Box-Lunch Etiquette: Conduct Guides and Kabuki Onnagata -- Chapter 3. The Perfect Woman: Geisha, Etiquette, and the World of Japanese Traditional Arts -- Chapter 4. Mortification, Mockery, and Dissembling: Western Adventures in Japanese Etiquette -- Chapter 5. A Dinner Party Is Not a Revolution: Space, Gender, and Hierarchy in Meiji Japan -- Chapter 6. The Oyaji Gets a Makeover: Guides for Japanese Salarymen in the New Millennium -- Chapter 7. The Dignified Woman Who Loves to Be "Lovable" -- Chapter 8. Making and Marketing Mothers: Guides to Pregnancy in Modern Japan -- Chapter 9. When Manners Are Not Enough: The Newspaper Advice Column and the "Etiquette" of Cultural Ideology in Contemporary Japan -- Chapter 10. A Community of Manners: Advice Columns in Lesbian and Gay Magazines in Japan -- Chapter 11. Behavior That Offends: Comics and Other Images of Incivility -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: Offering a concise, entertaining snapshot of Japanese society, Manners and Mischief examines etiquette guides, advice literature, and other such instruction for behavior from the early modern period to the present day and discovers how manners do in fact make the nation. Eleven accessibly written essays consider a spectrum of cases, from the geisha party to gay bar cool, executive grooming, and good manners for subway travel. Together, they show that etiquette is much more than fussy rules for behavior. In fact the idiom of manners, packaged in conduct literature, reveals much about gender and class difference, notions of national identity, the dynamics of subversion and conformity, and more. This richly detailed work reveals how manners give meaning to everyday life and extraordinary occasions, and how they can illuminate larger social and cultural transformations.
Titolo autorizzato: Manners and mischief  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-27814-6
0-520-94949-8
9786613278142
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910819486703321
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