Drawing on interviews with one hundred young Japanese women engaged
in a spectrum of voluntary political groups, Susan J. Pharr
explores how politically active women overcome the constraints that
bar or limit the political participation of the average woman. The
book treats political volunteers as agents of social change in a
process of role redefinition by which prevailing concepts of
women's roles gradually adjust to accommodate political behavior.
Tracing developments that led to the grant of suffrage and other
political rights to women during the Allied occupation, Pharr sets
the stage for an analysis of that process as it unfolds in the
experience of individual women. She uses women's images of self and
society and issues of political and gender role socialization,
career and life expectations, and political role and participation
to develop a three-fold typology for looking at political women in
Japan. She examines both the satisfactions of political
volunteerism—from the exhilaration of addressing a crowd from a
sound truck to the pleasure of speaking "men's language"—and the
psychological and social costs associated with it. This title
is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates
University of California Press’s mission to seek out and
cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1981.
General
Imprint: |
University of California Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
2021 |
First published: |
1981 |
Authors: |
Susan J. Pharr
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Dimensions: |
216 x 140 x 15mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
256 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-520-30253-2 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-520-30253-2 |
Barcode: |
9780520302532 |
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