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The Japanese Family in Transition: From the Professional Housewife Ideal to the Dilemmas of Choice by Suzanne Hall Vogel (Hardcover, 2013)
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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.Product Identifiers
PublisherRowman & Littlefield
ISBN-139781442221710
eBay Product ID (ePID)139973382
Product Key Features
Number of Pages200 Pages
Publication NameThe Japanese Family in Transition: from the Professional Housewife Ideal to the Dilemmas of Choice
LanguageEnglish
SubjectZoology, Anthropology, History
Publication Year2013
TypeStudy Guide
Subject AreaRegional History, Children & Family, Clinical Psychology
AuthorSuzanne Hall Vogel
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height238 mm
Item Weight426 g
Item Width163 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Title_AuthorSuzanne Hall Vogel
Series TitleAsia/Pacific/Perspectives
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