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Japan, the childless society? : the crisis of motherhood
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ISBN: 9786610115648 1134757166 1280115645 0203975324 9780203975329 0415146461 9780415146463 041514647X 9780415146470 6610115648 9781134757152 1134757158 9781134757169 9781280115646 9781134757114 Year: 1997 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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Disillusioned by long hours at home alone and by demands from the older generation, Japanese women are marrying later, resulting in a sharp decline in the Japanese birth rate. Muriel Jolivet considers the reasons why Japanese women are finding it increasingly difficult to accept the terms and conditions of motherhood.Japan: The Childless Society explores the major factors contributing to maternal malaise in Japan including:* the 'Ten Commandments of the Good Mother'* the changing role of the father* education and careers* nostalgia from older generations

The political economy of Japan's low fertility
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ISBN: 080476820X 1435608925 9781435608924 0804754861 9780804754866 Year: 2007 Publisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,

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This study takes an interdisciplinary approach to one of Japan's thorniest public policy issues: why are women increasingly foregoing motherhood? The authors argue that the combination of an inhospitable labour market for women and insufficient support for childcare pushes women toward working harder to promote their careers, to the detriment of childbearing. The book provides policy recommendations for solving not just Japan's fertility issue, but those of other modern democracies facing a similar crisis.


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Single mothers in contemporary Japan : motherhood, class, and reproductive practice
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ISBN: 9781498529969 9781498529976 9781498529983 Year: 2016 Publisher: Lanham, Md Lexington Books


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The Japanese family : Touch, intimacy and feeling
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ISBN: 9781138079434 113807943X 9780415740289 Year: 2017 Publisher: London Routledge

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"This book explores how the relationship between child and parent develops in Japan, from the earliest point in a child's life, through the transition from family to the wider world, first to playschools and then schools. It relates the position in Japan to theoretical writing, in both Japan and the West, on body, mind, intimacy and feeling, and compares the position in Japan to practices elsewhere. Overall, the book makes a significant contribution to the study of and theories on body practices, and to debates on the processes of socialisation in Japan"--


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Transforming the void
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ISBN: 9789004300675 9004300678 9004306528 9789004306523 Year: 2015 Publisher: Boston Brill

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Transforming the Void: Embryological Discourse and Reproductive Imagery in East Asian Religions considers paths to self-cultivation and salvation that are patterned on human embryological development or procreative imagery in the religions of China and Japan. Focusing on Taoism, Esoteric Buddhism, Shinto, Shugendō, and local religious traditions, the contributors to the volume provide new insight into how the body’s generative processes are harnessed as powerful metaphors for spiritual attainment. This volume offers an in-depth examination of the religious dimensions of embryology and reproductive imagery, topics that have been hitherto solely approached through the lens of the history of medicine. Contributors include: Brigitte Baptandier, Catherine Despeux, Grégoire Espesset, Christine Mollier, Fabrizio Pregadio, Dominic Steavu, Lucia Dolce, Bernard Faure, Iyanaga Nobumi, Anna Andreeva, Kigensan Licha, Gaynor Sekimori.

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