附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
摘要: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.
