Research Catalog

Title

Identity, gender, and status in Japan : collected papers of Takie Lebra.

Author

Lebra, Takie Sugiyama, 1930-

Publication

Folkestone, Kent, U.K. : Global Oriental, 2007.

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Details

Description

xxix, 439 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Summary

"This volume brings together twenty-four of the author's key papers on the three principal areas of her research over the last thirty-five years, and includes a complete Bibliography of her published writings, subdivided into books, articles in journals or as book chapters, and book reviews."--Jacket

Series Statement

The collected papers of twentieth century Japanese writers on Japan ; v. 2

Uniform Title

Collected papers of twentieth century Japanese writers on Japan ; v. 2.

Alternative Title

• Collected papers of Takie Lebra
• Takie Lebra : identity, gender, and status in Japan

Subject

• Since 1945
• National characteristics, Japanese
• Identity (Psychology) > Japan
• Women > Japan
• Social status > Japan
• 71.31 sexes and their interrelations
• Civilization
• Identity (Psychology)
• Social status
• Women
• Identität
• Geschlechterverhältnis
• Sekseverschillen
• Identiteit
• Sociale status
• Kvinnor > Japan
• Japan > Civilization > 1945-
• Japan
• Japan

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

The logic of salvation: the case of a Japanese sect in Hawaii -- The social mechanism of guilt and shame: the Japanese case -- Acculturation dilemma: the function of Japanese moral values for Americanization -- Religious conversion and elimination of the sick role: a Japanese sect in Hawaii -- Reciprocity-based moral sanctions and messianic salvation -- The interactional perspective of suffering and curing in a Japanese cult -- Taking the role of supernatural 'other': spirit possession in a Japanese healing cult -- Ancestral influence on the suffering of descendants in a Japanese cult -- Non-confrontational strategies for management of interpersonal conflicts -- The cultural significance of silence in Japanese communication -- Migawari: the cultural idiom of self-other exchange in Japan -- Sex equality for Japanese women -- The dilemma and strategies of aging among contemporary Japanese women -- Autonomy through interdependence: the housewives labor bank -- Japanese women in male-dominant careers: cultural barriers and accommodations for sex-role transcendence -- Gender and culture in the Japanese political economy: self-portrayals of prominent businesswomen -- Confucian gender role and personal fulfillment for Japanese women -- Non-western reactions to western feminism: the case of Japanese career women -- Adoption among the hereditary elite of Japan: status preservation through mobility -- The socialization of aristocratic children by commoners: recalled experiences of the hereditary elite in modern Japan -- Resurrecting ancestral charisma: aristocratic descendants in contemporary Japan -- The spatial layout of hierarchy: residential style of the modern Japanese nobility -- Skipped and postponed adolescence of aristocratic women in Japan: resurrecting the culture/nature issue -- Fractionated motherhood: gender and the elite status in Japan.

ISBN

• 9781905246175
• 190524617X
• 9789004213418
• 9004213414

OCLC

• ocn149649011
• 149649011
• SCSB-14478243

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library