Perfectly Japanese Making Families in an Era of Upheaval

Name: Perfectly Japanese Making Families in an Era of Upheaval
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ISBN: 9780520235052

ISBN-10: 0520235053

ISBN-13: 9780520235052

Edition: 2002

Authors: Merry White

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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.

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List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 9/2/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 265
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



List of Figures


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Are Japanese Families in Crisis?



Making Family: A Nation Begins at Home



Why Families Are a National Security Issue



Family under Construction: One Hundred Years at Home



Families in Postwar Japan: Democracy and Reconstruction



Containing Elements



Elemental Families: Starting with Children



Life Choices for Women and Men: The Bounded Realities of Reproduction



Twenty-First-Century Blues: Aging in Families



Consuming as Survival



Marketing the Bite-Size Family: Consuming Images, Supporting Realities


Conclusion: Exceptions Are the Rule


Notes


Bibliography


Index