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Tough choices : bearing an illegitimate child in contemporary Japan / Ekaterina Hertog.
LIBRA HQ999.J3 H48 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hertog, Ekaterina, 1979-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Unmarried mothers--Japan.
- Unmarried mothers.
- Japan.
- Physical Description:
- x, 228 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- "Naturally I believed I would get married" : making the choice
- Navigating work and welfare
- Legal discrimination against unwed mothers
- Are unwed mothers "immoral" or "impressive"? : the role of social stigma and shame in upholding family norms
- "The worst child abuse is the absence of a parent" : the role of guilt.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780804761291
- 0804761299
- OCLC:
- 315236798
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