Perfectly Japanese

Making Families in an Era of Upheaval

By:

Merry White

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Twentieth-century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power

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Are Japanese families in crisis? This study looks back at two key moments of "family making" in the 20th century - 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. Merry Isaacs White 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; and a marriage without children.

Author Biography:

Merry Isaacs White is Professor of Anthropology at Boston University. She is the author of The Japanese Educational Challenge: A Commitment to Children (1987), The Japanese Overseas: Can They Go Home Again? (1986), and The Material Child: Coming of Age in Japan and America (California, 1993) and coeditor of Comparing Cultures: Readings for Writers on Contemporary America and Japan (1996).

Release date NZ

September 2nd, 2002

Author

Merry White

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

9 line illustrations

Pages

265

Series

Twentieth-century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power

Dimensions

152x229x19

ISBN-13

9780520235052

Product ID

3487210

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