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Haruko's World - A Japanese Farm Woman and Her Community: with a 1996 Epilogue (Paperback)
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Haruko's World - A Japanese Farm Woman and Her Community: with a 1996 Epilogue (Paperback)
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In Japan as in the United States, family farming is on the wane,
increasingly rejected by the younger generation in favor of more
promising economic pursuits and more sophisticated comforts. Yet
for centuries past, the village and the family farm have
constituted the world of the vast majority of Japanese women, as of
Japanese men. The dramatic economic and demographic developments of
the past two decades have orced extensive changes in the lives of
Japanese farm women, many of hwom have been left virtually in
charge of their family farms.
This book is a study of Japanese farm women's lives in the present
era: its central figure is 42-year-old Haruko, a complex, vibrant
woman who both exemplifies and makes a mockery of the stereotype of
Japanese women. Through Haruko we learn the work routine, family
relationships, and social life of the women who are the mainstay of
Japanese agriculture. Other women from Haruko's village also figure
in the story, and the author's observations of them, based largely
on a six-month stay with Haruko and her family in 1974-75, are
supplemented with data from questionnaires and personal interviews.
An epilogue recounts the author's return to Haruko's village in
1982 and describes the changes that have occurred since 1975 in the
lives of Haruko's family and other village women. The book is
illustrated with photographs.
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