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Gambling with virtue : Japanese women and the search for self in a changing nation / Nancy Rosenberger.
LIBRA HQ1762 .R68 2001
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rosenberger, Nancy Ross.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Japan.
- Women.
- Self-perception in women--Japan.
- Self-perception in women.
- Japan.
- Physical Description:
- x, 277 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, [2001]
- Contents:
- Part I Glimpses into the '70s: Reworking Traditions 11
- Chapter 1 Institutional Selves: Women Teachers 21
- Chapter 2 Virtuous Selves: Housewives 44
- Part II Glimpses into the '80s: Individuality and Diversity 61
- Chapter 3 Backstage Selves: Housewives 75
- Chapter 4 Fulfilled Selves? Working Women 99
- Part III Glimpses into the '90s: Independent Selves Supporting Family 123
- Chapter 5 Centrifugal Selves: Housewives 137
- Chapter 6 Compassionate Selves: Women and Elder Care 160
- Chapter 7 Selves Centered on Self: Young Single Women 182
- Chapter 8 No Self, True Self, or Multiple Selves? 214.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-265) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0824822625
- 0824823885
- OCLC:
- 44425572
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