Perfectly Japanese: Making Families in an Era of Upheaval

, by White, Merry

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ISBN: 9780520235052 | 0520235053
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 9/1/2002

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Combines ethnographic, analytic, and personal insights to debunk the idealized image of the Japanese family held by many Americans and promoted as the official image by the Japanese state.

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List of Figures	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: Are Japanese Families in Crisis?	p. 1
Making Family: A Nation Begins at Home
Why Families Are a National Security Issue	p. 19
Family under Construction: One Hundred Years at Home	p. 42
Families in Postwar Japan: Democracy and Reconstruction	p. 63
Containing Elements
Elemental Families: Starting with Children	p. 99
Life Choices for Women and Men: The Bounded Realities of Reproduction	p. 122
Twenty-First-Century Blues: Aging in Families	p. 154
Consuming as Survival
Marketing the Bite-Size Family: Consuming Images, Supporting Realities	p. 183
Conclusion: Exceptions Are the Rule	p. 205
Notes	p. 213
Bibliography	p. 229
Index	p. 245
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Perfectly Japanese: Making Families in an Era of Upheaval

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