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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 perio...
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  • 02 September 2002
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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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Price: $31.95
Pages: 265
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Series: Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power
Publication Date: 02 September 2002
ISBN: 9780520936591
Format: eBook
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List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction

PART ONE: MAKING FAMILY—A NATION BEGINS AT HOME
1. Why Families Are a National Security Issue
2. Family Under Construction: One Hundred Years at Home
3. Families in Postwar Japan: Democracy and Reconstruction

PART TWO: CONTAINING ELEMENTS
4. Elemental Families: Starting with Children
5. Life Choices for Men and Women: The Bounded Realities of Reproduction
6. Twenty-First-Century Blues: Aging in Families

PART THREE: CONSUMING AS SURVIVAL
7. Marketing the Bite-Size Family: Consuming Images, Supporting Realities
Conclusion: Exceptions Are the Rule—Families as Exemplars of Diversity

Notes
Bibliography
Index