Perfectly Japanese: Making Families in an Era of Upheaval

by Merry Isaacs White

Book Overview

Are Japanese families in crisis? In this dynamic and substantive study, Merry Isaacs White looks back at two key moments of "family making" in the past hundred years--the Meiji era and postwar period--to see how models for the Japanese family have been constructed. The models had little to do with families of their eras and even less to do with families today, she finds. She vividly portrays the everyday reality of a range of families: young married...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520235053
• ISBN13: 9780520235052
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 265 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.0"