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BL
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953560
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b707930
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White, Merry I.,1941-
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| Title & Author
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Perfectly Japanese : : making families in an era of upheaval /\ Merry Isaacs White.
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| Publication Statement
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Berkeley :: University of California Press,, ©2002.
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| Series Statement
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Twentieth-century Japan ;; 14
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1 online resource (x, 255 pages)
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| ISBN
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0520217543
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: 0520235053
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: 0520936590
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: 1282762737
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: 1597348015
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: 661276273X
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: 9780520217546
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: 9780520235052
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: 9780520936591
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: 9780585466101
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: 9781282762732
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: 9781597348010
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: 9786612762734
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0520217543
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0520235053
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Are Japanese Families in Crisis?; 1. Why Families Are a National Security Issue; 2. Family under Construction: One Hundred Years at Home; 3. Families in Postwar Japan: Democracy and Reconstruction; 4. Elemental Families: Starting with Children; 5. Life Choices for Women and Men: The Bounded Realities of Reproduction; 6. Twenty-First-Century Blues: Aging in Families; 7. Marketing the Bite-Size Family: Consuming Images, Supporting Realities; Conclusion: Exceptions Are the Rule: Families as Models of Diversity; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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| Abstract
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Are Japanese families in crisis? In this 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.
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Families-- Japan.
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Families.
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FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS-- Alternative Family.
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FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS-- Reference.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Anthropology-- Cultural.
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Families.
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Japan.
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Japan.
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| Dewey Classification
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306.85/0952
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| LC Classification
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HQ682.W484 2002eb
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