Manners and mischief : gender, power, and etiquette in Japan / edited by Jan Bardsley and Laura Miller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bardsley, Jan.

Miller, Laura, 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Etiquette--Japan.

Etiquette.

Sex role--Japan.

Sex role.

Power (Social sciences)--Japan.

Power (Social sciences).

Japan--Social life and customs.

Japan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (301 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, Calif. ; Los Angeles, Calif. : University of California Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Offering a concise, entertaining snapshot of Japanese society, Manners and Mischief examines etiquette guides, advice literature, and other such instruction for behavior from the early modern period to the present day and discovers how manners do in fact make the nation. Eleven accessibly written essays consider a spectrum of cases, from the geisha party to gay bar cool, executive grooming, and good manners for subway travel. Together, they show that etiquette is much more than fussy rules for behavior. In fact the idiom of manners, packaged in conduct literature, reveals much about gender and class difference, notions of national identity, the dynamics of subversion and conformity, and more. This richly detailed work reveals how manners give meaning to everyday life and extraordinary occasions, and how they can illuminate larger social and cultural transformations.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Manners and Mischief: Introduction

Chapter 1. Genji Guides, or Minding Murasaki

Chapter 2. Box-Lunch Etiquette: Conduct Guides and Kabuki Onnagata

Chapter 3. The Perfect Woman: Geisha, Etiquette, and the World of Japanese Traditional Arts

Chapter 4. Mortification, Mockery, and Dissembling: Western Adventures in Japanese Etiquette

Chapter 5. A Dinner Party Is Not a Revolution: Space, Gender, and Hierarchy in Meiji Japan

Chapter 6. The Oyaji Gets a Makeover: Guides for Japanese Salarymen in the New Millennium

Chapter 7. The Dignified Woman Who Loves to Be "Lovable"

Chapter 8. Making and Marketing Mothers: Guides to Pregnancy in Modern Japan

Chapter 9. When Manners Are Not Enough: The Newspaper Advice Column and the "Etiquette" of Cultural Ideology in Contemporary Japan

Chapter 10. A Community of Manners: Advice Columns in Lesbian and Gay Magazines in Japan

Chapter 11. Behavior That Offends: Comics and Other Images of Incivility

Bibliography

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613278142

9781283278140

1283278146

9780520949492

0520949498

OCLC:

710974693