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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Vogel, Suzanne Hall (1931-2012)
Vogel, Steven Kent (1961-....)
Titre(s) : The Japanese family in transition [Texte imprimé] : from the professional housewife ideal to the dilemmas of choice / Suzanne Hall Vogel with Steven K. Vogel
Publication : Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, cop. 2013
Description matérielle : xi,187 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection : Asia-Pacific-perspectives
Lien à la collection : Asia-Pacific-Perspectives
Comprend : The postwar ideal ; Mrs. Tanaka: embracing the role ; Mrs. Itou: resisting the
role ; Mrs. Suzuki: power and submission ; New strains.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"In 1958, Suzanne and Ezra Vogel embedded themselves in a Tokyo suburban community,
interviewing six middle-class families regularly for a year. Their research led to
Japan's New Middle Class, a classic work on the sociology of Japan. Now, Suzanne Hall
Vogel's compelling sequel traces the evolution of Japanese society over the past fifty
years through the lives of three of these ordinary yet remarkable women and their
daughters and granddaughters. Vogel contends that the role of the professional housewife
constrained Japanese middle-class women in the postwar era--and yet it empowered them
as well. Precisely because of fixed gender roles, with women focusing on the home
and children while men focused on work, Japanese housewives had remarkable authority
and autonomy within their designated realm. Wives and mothers now have more options
than their mothers and grandmothers did, but they find themselves unprepared to cope
with this new era of choice. These gripping biographies poignantly illustrate the
strengths and the vulnerabilities of professional housewives and of families facing
social change and economic uncertainty in contemporary Japan."--Publisher's website
Sujet(s) : Famille -- Japon
Femmes au foyer -- Japon -- 20e siècle
Genre ou forme : Études de cas -- 20e siècle
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781442221710 (cloth) (alk. paper). - ISBN 1442221712 (cloth) (alk. paper). -
ISBN 9781442221727 (erroné) (electronic). - ISBN 1442221720 (electronic). - ISBN 9781442221727
(electronic)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb443715923
Notice n° :
FRBNF44371592
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
