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The Japanese family in transition : from the professional housewife ideal to the dilemmas of choice / Suzanne Hall Vogel with Steven K. Vogel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vogel, Suzanne Hall, 1931-2012.
- Series:
- Asia/Pacific/perspectives
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Families--Japan--Case studies.
- Families.
- Housewives--Japan--Case studies.
- Housewives.
- Women--Japan--Case studies.
- Women.
- Japan--Social conditions--1945-.
- Japan.
- Social conditions.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 187 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., [2013]
- Summary:
- 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 past fifty years through the lives of three of these ordinary yet remarkable women and their daughters and granddaughters. 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. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- The postwar ideal
- Mrs. Tanaka: embracing the role
- Mrs. Itou: resisting the role
- Mrs. Suzuki: power to submission
- New strains.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781442221710
- 1442221712
- OCLC:
- 816030311
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