The Japanese Family in Transition - From the Professional Housewife Ideal to the Dilemmas of Choice (Paperback)

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 ensuing decades 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.

General

Imprint:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
Release date:	February 2016
Authors:	Suzanne Hall Vogel
As told to:	Steven K. Vogel
Dimensions:	230 x 151 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	200
ISBN-13:	978-1-4422-5275-2
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Area / regional studies > General Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Family & relationships > General Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General
LSN:	1-4422-5275-8
Barcode:	9781442252752

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