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Life in a Japanese women's college : learning to be ladylike

Title
Life in a Japanese women's college : learning to be ladylike / Brian J. McVeigh.
Author
McVeigh, Brian J.
Publication
London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.

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Description
xii, 264 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Series Statement
The Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series
Uniform Title
Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series
Subject
  • Takasu International College > Students
  • Takasu International College
  • Erziehungsanstalt für Töchter Eisenach
  • Honʼyaku iin shachū Japan
  • Women > Education (Higher) > Social aspects > Japan > Case studies
  • Women college students > Japan > Social conditions > Case studies
  • Social role > Japan
  • 81.23 school life
  • Social role
  • Students
  • Women college students > Social conditions
  • Women > Education (Higher) > Social aspects
  • Höheres Bildungswesen
  • Beroepsopleidingen
  • Vrouwen
  • Rollen (sociale wetenschappen)
  • Women college teachers > Japan > Social conditions > Case studies
  • Éducation des femmes > Japon > Cas, Études de
  • Femmes > Enseignement supérieur > Aspect social > Cas, Études de. > Japon
  • Rôle social > Japon
  • Japan
Genre/Form
Case studies.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. Introduction: purposes, premises, and problems -- 2. Mental acts as social behavior: reuniting body, mind, and practice -- 3. The ethnomorality of etiquette: the cultural context of Takasu International College -- 4. Cultivating "ladylike" and "international" women at Takasu -- 5. Takasu as an institution -- 6. Ceremonies of culture in a culture of ceremony -- 7. Becoming an "office lady": engendering gender through the body -- 8. Students: the politics of shyness and schooling -- 9. Leaving college life and entering the adult world -- 10. Conclusion: socialization, gender, schooling, and the state.
ISBN
  • 0415144566
  • 9780415144568
LCCN
96019652
OCLC
  • ocm34669361
  • 34669361
  • SCSB-8917855
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library