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The Japanese koseki system is the legal and social structure
keeping record of all Japanese citizens. Determined by the Civil
Code and the Koseki Law, for activists challenging it, the koseki
is also an ideological structure, which has produced patriarchal
control through single-surname households. Based on ethnographic
fieldwork in Tokyo, this book engages with issues of gender
hierarchy and structural inequality in Japanese society. Studying
several decades of feminist activism and critique of the koseki
system, it analyses the strategies of activists who have creatively
circumvented koseki rules in order to maintain their natal names in
marriage. It examines the case studies of members of the fufubessei
(separate surname movement) and the movement to end discrimination
against children born out of wedlock, and in so doing this book
illuminates the contradictions in current family law and koseki
practice that have animated a generation of feminists in Japan.
Demonstrating the effect of the koeski on family, gender, and
national identity, this book will be useful for students and
scholars of Cultural Anthropology, Gender Studies, and Japanese
Studies in general.
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Too Many Pumpkins (Paperback)
Linda White; Illustrated by Megan Lloyd
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With countless unwelcome pumpkins to deal with, Rebecca Estelle
turns disaster into a celebration.
The Japanese koseki system is the legal and social structure
keeping record of all Japanese citizens. Determined by the Civil
Code and the Koseki Law, for activists challenging it, the koseki
is also an ideological structure, which has produced patriarchal
control through single-surname households. Based on ethnographic
fieldwork in Tokyo, this book engages with issues of gender
hierarchy and structural inequality in Japanese society. Studying
several decades of feminist activism and critique of the koseki
system, it analyses the strategies of activists who have creatively
circumvented koseki rules in order to maintain their natal names in
marriage. It examines the case studies of members of the fufubessei
(separate surname movement) and the movement to end discrimination
against children born out of wedlock, and in so doing this book
illuminates the contradictions in current family law and koseki
practice that have animated a generation of feminists in Japan.
Demonstrating the effect of the koeski on family, gender, and
national identity, this book will be useful for students and
scholars of Cultural Anthropology, Gender Studies, and Japanese
Studies in general.
The Basque language is one of Europe's most ancient, its origins as
mysterious as those of the Basque people themselves. It is also the
official language of Euskadi, the bustling, modern Basque
Autonomous Region of Spain, and the preferred tongue of tens of
thousands of Basques and their descendants living in the European
Basque Country and in diaspora around the world. Aurrera! is a
comprehensive text for beginning-level students who are learning
Basque (the Batua form approved by the Academy of the Basque
Language) in a classroom setting or on their own. Each chapter
introduces an element of grammar and offers students new
vocabulary, written and spoken exercises, dialogues, and other
activities that demonstrate the language in action, plus Basque
reading texts that will entertain while they illustrate the
material covered in the chapter. The complexities of Basque grammar
are explained in clear, easy-to-understand terms, and the dialogues
and exercises introduce students to common idioms and the basics of
social conversation. Volume 1 covers material for the first two
semesters of college-level language-classroom work. It is also
designed to give independent learners a sound foundation in the
language that will allow them to make their own way in a
Basque-speaking environment and to read basic Basque texts.
Romance Away, A Collection of Romantic Tales By Linda
White-Francis-- Brooklyn's T-Bird Man, Brooklyn encounters a
middle-aged classic car buff at the supermarket magazine racks. She
and Tanner discover love, laughter and a few bumps on the road to
romance.-- Vacation For Desire; Teri accepts a date for dinner with
David. She worries, will romance with a younger man be 'rocking the
cradle', or rocking the boat? -- Cruise For Desire (Sequel To
Vacation For Desire) On a cruise to Cancun, a younger man puts the
wind back in spinster Teri Blanchester's sails. Can they find love
on a turbulent sea?
In Constructing Policy Change, Linda A. White examines the
expansion of early childhood education and care (ECEC) policies and
programs in liberal welfare states, including Australia, Canada,
New Zealand, the UK, and the USA. In the first part of the book,
the author investigates the sources of policy ideas that triggered
ECEC changes in various national contexts. This is followed by a
close analysis of cross-national variation in the implementation of
ECEC policy in Canada and the USA. White argues that the primary
mechanisms for policy change are grounded in policy investment
logics as well as cultural logics: that is, shifts in public
sentiments and government beliefs about the value of ECEC policies
and programs are rooted in both evidence-based arguments and in
principled beliefs about the policy. A rich, nuanced examination of
the reasons motivating ECEC policy expansion and adoption in
different countries, Constructing Policy Change is a corrective to
the comparative welfare state literature that focuses on political
interest alone.
Over the past decade, the introspective, insular, and largely
atheoretical style that informed Canadian political science for
most of the postwar period has given way to a deeper engagement
with, and integration into, the global field of comparative
politics. This volume is the first sustained attempt to describe,
analyze, and assess the "comparative turn" in Canadian political
science. Canada's engagement with comparative politics is examined
with a focus on three central questions: In what ways, and how
successfully, have Canadian scholars contributed to the study of
comparative politics? How does study of the Canadian case advance
the comparative discipline? Finally, can Canadian practice and
policy be reproduced in other countries?
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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++++ La Conca D'oro Linda White Mazini Villari Carlo Allario
Fratelli Treves, 1880 Children's stories
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