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Women social reformers --- Radicalism --- Extremism, Political --- Ideological extremism --- Political extremism --- Political science --- Social reformers --- History --- Japan --- Social conditions --- J4000.80 --- J4010 --- J4176.80 --- Japan: Social history, history of civilization -- Gendai (1926- ), Shōwa period, 20th century --- Japan: Social sciences in general -- ideology, socio-political and socio-economic movements --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- gender roles, women, feminism -- history --- Social reform --- Role of --- Women

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This first ethnographic study of factory workers engaged in radical labor protest gives a voice to a segment of the Japanese population that has been previously marginalized. These blue-collar workers, involved in prolonged labor disputes, tell their own story as they struggle to make sense of their lives and their culture during a time of conflict and instability. What emerges is a sensitive portrait of how workers grapple with a slowed economy and the contradictions of Japanese industry in the late postwar era. The ways that they think and feel about accommodation, resistance, and protest raise essential questions about the transformation of labor practices and limits of worker cooperation and compliance.

Labor unions --- Working class --- Labor movement --- Class consciousness --- Industrial relations --- Labor & Workers' Economics --- Business & Economics --- Japan --- Social conditions --- Consciousness --- Social perception --- Social classes --- J4010 --- J4202 --- J4350 --- J4352 --- Japan: Social sciences in general -- ideology, socio-political and socio-economic movements --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- communities -- social classes and groups -- middle class, shi-nō-kō-shō --- Japan: Economy and industry -- labor and employment --- Japan: Economy and industry -- labor and employment -- social conditions --- Conscience de classe --- Relations industrielles --- Mouvement ouvrier --- Syndicats --- Travailleurs --- Japon --- Conditions sociales --- 1945 --- -Trade-unions - Japan. --- Working class - Japan. --- Social movements - Japan. --- Class consciousness - Japan. --- Japan - Social conditions - 1945 --- -Class consciousness --- -Labor unions --- accommodation. --- blue collar workers. --- class consciousness. --- community. --- democracy. --- demonstrations. --- economy. --- ethnography. --- factories. --- factory workers. --- japan. --- japanese history. --- japanese industry. --- japanese labor history. --- japanese society. --- japanese unions. --- labor disputes. --- labor movements. --- labor practices. --- labor relations. --- labor. --- political action. --- protest. --- protests. --- radical labor protest. --- resistance. --- social relations. --- solidarity. --- union meetings. --- union. --- work. --- worker compliance. --- worker cooperation. --- worker dignity. --- Trade-unions - Japan.

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While the typical Japanese male politician glides through his district in air-conditioned taxis, the typical female voter trundles along the side streets on a simple bicycle. In this first ethnographic study of the politics of the average female citizen in Japan, Robin LeBlanc argues that this taxi-bicycle contrast reaches deeply into Japanese society. To study the relationship between gender and liberal democratic citizenship, LeBlanc conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork in suburban Tokyo among housewives, volunteer groups, consumer cooperative movements, and the members of a committee to reelect a female Diet member who used her own housewife status as the key to victory. LeBlanc argues that contrary to popular perception, Japanese housewives are ultimately not without a political world. Full of new and stimulating material, engagingly written, and deft in its weaving of theoretical perspectives with field research, this study will not only open up new dialogues between gender theory and broader social science concerns but also provide a superb introduction to politics in Japan as a whole.

Women --- Housewives --- Political participation --- Gender & Ethnic Studies --- Social Sciences --- Gender Studies & Sexuality --- Homemakers --- Mothers --- Wives --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Political activity --- Social conditions --- #SBIB:316.346H20 --- #SBIB:324H60 --- J4010 --- J4176 --- Positie van de vrouw in de samenleving: algemeen --- Politieke socialisatie --- Japan: Social sciences in general -- ideology, socio-political and socio-economic movements --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- gender roles, women, feminism --- Women in politics --- 20th century japanese culture. --- 20th century japanese politics. --- community service. --- consumer cooperative movements. --- elite politics. --- ethnography. --- female diet member. --- field research. --- fieldwork. --- gender studies. --- gender theory. --- housewives. --- japan. --- japanese citizenship. --- japanese culture. --- japanese housewives. --- japanese male politician. --- japanese politics. --- japanese society. --- japanese women. --- liberal democratic citizenship. --- political world. --- politics. --- regular housewife. --- social science. --- sociology. --- the ono campaign. --- tokyo. --- volunteer groups.