Bicycle Citizens The Political World of the Japanese Housewife

Name: Bicycle Citizens The Political World of the Japanese Housewife
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ISBN: 9780520212916

ISBN-10: 0520212916

ISBN-13: 9780520212916

Edition: 1999

Authors: Robin M. LeBlanc

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While the typical Japanese male politician glides through his district in air-conditioned taxis, the typical female voter trundles along the side streets on a simple bicycle. In this first ethnographic study of the politics of the average female citizen in Japan, Robin LeBlanc argues that this taxi-bicycle contrast reaches deeply into Japanese society. To study the relationship between gender and liberal democratic citizenship, LeBlanc conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork in suburban Tokyo among housewives, volunteer groups, consumer cooperative movements, and the members of a committee to reelect a female Diet member who used her own housewife status as the key to victory. LeBlanc…

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 3/5/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 263
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Foreword



Acknowledgments


Note on Names



"Supposing Truth Is a Woman - What Then?"



The Identity of the "Regular Housewife"



Housewives and Citizenship



Volunteering against Politics: Housewives, Citizenship, and Community Service



Toward a "Housewifely" Movement: The Seikatsu Club Co-op's Daily Life Politics



The Ono Campaign: A "Regular" Housewife in Elite Politics


Conclusion


Notes


References


Index