Perfectly Japanese: Making Families in an Era of Upheaval Paperback - 2002
by Merry White
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An official at the Ministry of Health and Welfare listened as I asked about apparently "pronatalist" social policies, seeming to many to be strategies for increasing the birthrate.
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"White debunks the idealized image of the Japanese family held by many Americans as the exemplar of traditional family values--stable, dutiful, homogeneous, harmonious. This is also the 'official image' promoted by state, the media, and other institutions. Instead, White shows that families in Japan are as diverse, complex and contested as ours. She exposes the struggle of individuals and families as they negotiate the gap between the ideal and the realities of the post-industrial world of the twenty-first century."--Arlene Skolnick, author of Embattled Paradise: The American Family in an Age of Uncertainty
"Japanese politicians have pronounced the declining birthrate a national crisis. White gives us an enlightening bolt of reality, showing how Japanese families are really coping with the enormous changes surrounding them. Creative new patterns in dealing with the elderly, shopping, young people living at home, and married couples who continue to have an average of two or more children, are explored in depth."--Ezra Vogel, Henry Ford II Research Professor at Harvard and author of Is Japan Still Number One?
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- Title Perfectly Japanese: Making Families in an Era of Upheaval
- Author Merry White
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 265
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press, Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 2002-09-02
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780520235052 / 0520235053
- Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 8.98 x 6.38 x 0.66 in (22.81 x 16.21 x 1.68 cm)
- Reading level 1460
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Asian - Japanese
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects Family - Japan
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002005535
- Dewey Decimal Code 306.850
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