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1 online resource |
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The intimate and the public in Asian and global perspectives, 2213-0608 ; v. 2 |
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Intimate and the public in Asian and global perspectives ; v. 2. 2213-0608
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| Contents |
Patriarchy in East Asia; Copyright; Contents; Preface; List of Figures; List of Tables; Introduction: Toward a Comparative Sociology of Gender; 1. A Sociology of Gender; 2. The Meaning of Comparison; 3. The Meaning of Making East Asia the Subject; PART ONE; 1. What is Patriarchy?; 1. Bringing Order to the Discussion of Patriarchy; 2. The Use of Patriarchy in Cultural Anthropology and Sociology; 2.1. Uses of the Concept in Cultural Anthropology; 2.2. Uses of the Concept in Sociology; 2.3. The Household System and Patriarchy in Japan |
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3. How the Concept of Patriarchy is used by Feminists in the West3.1. Attempts to Investigate Psychological Origins; 3.2. Currents in the Study of Historical Origins; 3.3. Usage in Marxist Feminism; 4. Building a Broadly Applicable Concept of Patriarchy; 4.1. Peeling away the Layers of Danger Wrapped Around the Concept of Patriarchy; 4.2. Generation and Age as Elements; 4.3. Patriarchy as an Analytical Concept with the Greatest Common Denominator; 4.4. Describing the Forms of Patriarchy; 2. The Emergence of the Housewife and Transformations in Her Position |
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1. Married Women Become Housewives and a Source of Labor1.1. Our Focus: Housewives and Women's Advance into Society; 2. Charting the Course of the Emergence of the Housewife; 2.1. Primitive Labor Relations; 2.2. The Advent of the Modern Housewife; 2.3. Contemporary Housewives; 2.4. The Disappearance of the Housewife; 3.1. Building Socialism; 3.2. Indigenization of Socialism; PART TWO; 3. Socialist Models; 3. The Japanese Housewife and Patriarchy; 1. Emergence from Primitive Labor Relations; 1.1. Patterns in the Labor Force; 1.2. Forms of Female Labor; 1.3. An Expansion of Workers' Incomes |
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2. Background for Emergence of Japan's Modern Patriarchy-Confucianism and the Ideal of the Good Wife and Wise Mother2.1. Premodern East Asian Concepts of Women's Education; 2.2. Origin of the Idea of the Good Wife and Wise Mother (or Wise Wife and Good Mother) in China and Korea; 2.3. The Formation of the Ideology of the Good Wife and Wise Mother in Japan; 2.4. The Aim of the Ideological Campaign; 2.5. The Japanese Form of Modern Patriarchy; 3. The Advent of the Modern Housewife; 3.1. The Modern Housewife and a New View of the Family |
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3.2. Duties of the Modern Housewife-Rational Household Management and Housework as Women's Natural Occupation3.3. The Culture Surrounding the Modern Housewife; 3.4. Salarymen and Professional Women; 4. The Modern Housewife in Wartime Conditions-Motherhood Emphasized Once Again; 4. Contemporary Patriarchy and the Housewife in Japan; 1. Postwar Economic Growth and New Forms of Industrialization; 1.1. The Spread of a Contemporary Lifestyle; 1.2. Labor Policies and Transitions in the Workforce; 2. Formation of New Patriarchal Norms; 2.1. Japan's Contemporary Patriarchy |
| Summary |
Patriarchy in East Asia provides a coherent comparative analysis of gender in five East Asian societies. This is the first work of its kind done by a sociologist who is also fluent in all of the local languages |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Patriarchy -- East Asia
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Families -- East Asia
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Married women -- East Asia
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Alternative Family.
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Reference.
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Families
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Married women
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Patriarchy
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East Asia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2012047441 |
| ISBN |
9789004247772 |
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9004247777 |
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