3 options
Tough choices : bearing an illegitimate child in contemporary Japan / Ekaterina Hertog.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hertog, Ekaterina, 1979-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Unmarried mothers--Japan.
- Unmarried mothers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book offers the first detailed study of why the number of unmarried Japanese mothers has hardly changed since 1955, despite the prevalence of certain factors in Japan (more later marriages, higher divorce rate, and so on) that have brought about significant increases in lone mothers in even the most conservative western industrialized countries.
- 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-221) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780804772396
- 0804772398
- OCLC:
- 645099667
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.