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" Dimensions of Japanese society : "
Kenneth G. Henshall
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597011
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GBA040461b426230
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Henshall, Kenneth G
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Dimensions of Japanese society : : gender, margins and mainstream /\ Kenneth G. Henshall
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xxi, 249 pages ;; 22 cm
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0312221924
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: 9780312221928
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: 0333744780
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: 9780333744789
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: 0333772393
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: 9780333772393
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-236) and index
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pt. 1. The essentials of society: men and women. Hard men, soft men, ideal men, real men: the constructing of maleness. From reigning empress to silly servant: the historical downgrading of the female. Tradition meets the modern world: the hesitant emergence of the new woman. Boys and madonnas, father-figures and virgins: relations between the sexes. The blurrings of gender: homosexuality, bisexuality, and androgyny. -- pt. 2. On the fringes of society: minorities and other marginals. Impure outcasts: the Burakumin. Primitives: the Ainu. Not quite us: Koreans in Japan. Heroic villains: the Yakuza. Off-centre: Okinawans and other outer regional groups. The dreaded outside threat: foreigners and "foreign-tainted" groups. Failures: day-labourers and vagrants. Unwholesome: the diseased. Imperfect and neglected: the physically disabled. Selfish and ungrateful: the mentally impaired. -- pt. 3. The mainstream of society: being a normal Japanese. Being young: socialisation, education, and muted rebellion. Being adult: social responsibility, work, and families. Being old: Confucian ideals and the reality of decrepitude. Being oneself: the individual in a "groupist" society. Being Japanese: a race apart? -- Conclusion: Japan as itself, and the aesthetics of purity
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Japan remains one of the most intriguing yet least understood nations. This balanced and comprehensive analysis includes among its revelations that the Japanese are driven not by a morality based on good and evil, but by what is pure and impure
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Social values-- Japan
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Marginality, Social-- Japan
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Sex role-- Japan
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Minorities-- Japan
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Japan, Social conditions, 1945-
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306/.0952
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HN723.5.H48 1999
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