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Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (2): 433–435.
Published: 01 May 2000
...Kathleen Uno Bicycle Citizens: The Political World of the Japanese Housewife . By Robin Leblanc . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1999 . $40.00 (cloth); $14.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 433 the series...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1984) 44 (1): 200–201.
Published: 01 November 1984
... portrait she presents not only confirms the general accounts of rural life in more conventional ethnographies, but corroborates itself by composing a picture from several different viewpoints. Consider, for example, the role of the housewife -one to which Japanese women are devoted, a devotion many...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (2): 375–376.
Published: 01 May 1988
... the home? Anne Imamura, an American sociologist at the University of Maryland, has given us a well-documented picture of the life-style and relationships of contemporary urban middle-class Japanese housewives. Although her major focus is not on changes in the housewife's role, her broad, detailed analysis...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (4): 1276–1278.
Published: 01 November 1994
... valorization of the professional housewife and the Azumi company president's dire warning in his New Year's address to his female workers that working women would lead to the downfall of Japan Roberts's co-workers did not fit the professional housewife pattern. Indeed, many viewed housewives as boring, dowdy...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1984) 44 (1): 198–200.
Published: 01 November 1984
... ethnographies, but corroborates itself by composing a picture from several different viewpoints. Consider, for example, the role of the housewife -one to which Japanese women are devoted, a devotion many Americans find difficult to understand. Bernstein points out that housewifery is so attractive because...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (2): 583–585.
Published: 01 May 2012
... on the major problems facing historians of colonial modern womanhood. She addresses not just the question of nomenclature or new words created to define womanhood, but also engages the questions of women's' citizenship, fashion, class realignments, housewification, race, miscegenation, gendered social status...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (3): 924–925.
Published: 01 August 2010
... a model housewife's crushing suspicions about her husband's infidelity in Han Mu-suk's “Hydrangeas” (1949); a writer whose success strains her relationship with her husband, a mediocre literary talent, in Kang Sin-jae's “The Mist” (1950); nostalgia sparked by encountering an old flame separated when Korea...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (2): 376–377.
Published: 01 May 1988
... assuring that she is home anytime her family needs her and that all household matters are cared for can a housewife contemplate having tea with a friend. Typically she takes care to be home in time to shop and cook dinner and will avoid telephoning at night if her husband is home and might be bothered...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (2): 435–437.
Published: 01 May 2000
... serve as a benchmark for investigation of women's political thought and conduct beyond the suburban or metropolitan context of Nerima Ward in the early 1990s. LeBlanc's exploration of the housewife's identity is a highly significant contribution to understandings of Japanese womanhood and gender. Unlike...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (2): 683–685.
Published: 01 May 2003
... familiar arenas of public discourses, such as the writings of Bankimchandra and debates on state legislation. On the other hand, the essays draw on less traditional arenas of analysis, such as the autobiography of Rashsundari Deb, a nineteenth-century housewife, and 684 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1980) 40 (1): 136–138.
Published: 01 November 1980
... marks for his sympathetic treatment of Japanese women, is nonetheless accused of "almost obscenely idealizing the Japanese woman as housewife" (p. 278). The extreme rhetoric is, alas, all too characteristic of Mellen's style, as is the BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 137 unintentionally comical comment...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (2): 511–513.
Published: 01 May 2004
... already in progress before the war (p. 7). Sato focuses on three types of new Japanese women the modern girl (moga), the self-motivated housewife (shufu), and the working woman (shokugyo fujin) each of whom offered Japanese women a new model of identity in the interwar period. Drawing on women s...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (3): 805–834.
Published: 01 August 2009
... their volume of waste, not so much for the sake of Fukagawa residents as for the goal of enlightening themselves. Two of the characters, both housewives, are not particularly enlightened. Housewife A, for example, appears on the stage with a colander full of watermelon rind. She says, “At our house...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (3): 755–783.
Published: 01 August 2016
... to liberate women, his conclusions are supported by the political mood and the economic program in both China and Japan. The figure of the housewife at her sewing machine in postwar Japan embodies this psychosocial order; but she had much in common with the socialist wife and mother in 1950s China (Evans...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (3): 784–785.
Published: 01 August 2020
... the vital role played by the professional housewife in the household that constitutes the modern nation-state of Japan. Human Revolution reveals Soka Gakkai's institutional constraints and the dilemma of its members from an insiders’ perspective. As McLaughlin suggests, his study of Soka Gakkai...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (3): 735–736.
Published: 01 August 2013
..., and the ideological casualties of division. The anthology's closing story, The Old Well , has a middle-aged housewife retreat to her apartment in the hills to spend time with the passionate ghosts of her past. This is a splendid book for undergraduate and graduate students of East Asian literature and all lovers...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (2): 520–522.
Published: 01 May 2021
... psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Dev Satya Nand, begins to analyze a twenty-one-year old upper-caste housewife, Mrs. A. Through their interactions—more like conversations than analysis—the rich world and psyche of Mrs. A emerges. They are not strictly patient and doctor, since she challenges him at many...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (1): 149–170.
Published: 01 February 2012
...), they do not aim to overtly subvert them. Doing politics and the possibility to go forward and to progress ( Aghe bharna ) was pitted against the one-dimensional nature of life as a housewife, implicitly questioning the ideal of femininity associated with this role. Women's de-sexualization within...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (1): 178–180.
Published: 01 February 2015
... and repulsed by this Asian boy in drag” (p. 140). Justin Chin, in his queer remake of The World of Suzie Wong , turns Lomax into a sixty-year-old rice queen who ends up dumping Suzie for a Thai boy. So why would “the native boy go to the United States of America as the desperate Asian housewife?” (p. 151...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (2): 564–566.
Published: 01 May 2007
... retinues of servants! Chapter 3 examines the relationship between the mistress and her servants, primarily using the new domestic manuals aimed at the ideal middle-class housewife, the sugrahini . In particular, these manuals reveal processes through which an emerging middle class sought to reinforce new...
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