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Gambling With Virtue : Japanese Women and the Search for Self in a Changing Nation / Nancy R. Rosenberger.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2000]Copyright date: ©2000Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780824822620
  • 9780824862619
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 155.8/952 21
LOC classification:
  • HQ1762 .R68 2001eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I :Glimpses into the '70s: Reworking -- Chapter 1. Institutional Selves: Women Teachers -- Chapter 2. Virtuous Selves: Housewives -- PART II :Glimpses into the '80s -- Chapter 3 .Backstage Selves: Housewives -- Chapter 4. Fulfilled Selves? Working Women -- PART III: Glimpses into the '90s -- Chapter 5. Centrifugal Selves: Housewives -- Chapter 6. Compassionate Selves: Women and Elder Care -- Chapter 7. Selves Centered on Self: Young Single Women -- Chapter 8. No Self, True Self, or Multiple Selves? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index
Summary: Gambling with Virtue rings with the voices of women speaking openly about their struggle to be both modern and Japanese in the late twentieth century. It brings to the fore the complexity of women's everyday lives as they navigate through home, work, and community. Meanwhile, women fashion selves that acknowledge and challenge the social order. Nancy Rosenberger gives us their voices and experiences interspersed with introductions to public ideas of the last three decades that contribute significantly to the opportunities and risks women encounter in their journeys. Rosenberger uses the stage as a metaphor to demonstrate how everyday life requires Japanese women to be skilled performers. She shows how they function on stage in their accepted roles while effecting small but significant changes backstage. Over the last thirty years, Japanese women have expanded their influence and extended this cultural process of multiple arenas to find compromises between the old virtues of personhood and new ideals for self. They conform, maneuver, and make choices within these multiple stages as they juggle various concerns and desires. By the 1990s their personal choices have made a difference, calling into question the very nature of these multiple arenas.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I :Glimpses into the '70s: Reworking -- Chapter 1. Institutional Selves: Women Teachers -- Chapter 2. Virtuous Selves: Housewives -- PART II :Glimpses into the '80s -- Chapter 3 .Backstage Selves: Housewives -- Chapter 4. Fulfilled Selves? Working Women -- PART III: Glimpses into the '90s -- Chapter 5. Centrifugal Selves: Housewives -- Chapter 6. Compassionate Selves: Women and Elder Care -- Chapter 7. Selves Centered on Self: Young Single Women -- Chapter 8. No Self, True Self, or Multiple Selves? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index

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Gambling with Virtue rings with the voices of women speaking openly about their struggle to be both modern and Japanese in the late twentieth century. It brings to the fore the complexity of women's everyday lives as they navigate through home, work, and community. Meanwhile, women fashion selves that acknowledge and challenge the social order. Nancy Rosenberger gives us their voices and experiences interspersed with introductions to public ideas of the last three decades that contribute significantly to the opportunities and risks women encounter in their journeys. Rosenberger uses the stage as a metaphor to demonstrate how everyday life requires Japanese women to be skilled performers. She shows how they function on stage in their accepted roles while effecting small but significant changes backstage. Over the last thirty years, Japanese women have expanded their influence and extended this cultural process of multiple arenas to find compromises between the old virtues of personhood and new ideals for self. They conform, maneuver, and make choices within these multiple stages as they juggle various concerns and desires. By the 1990s their personal choices have made a difference, calling into question the very nature of these multiple arenas.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)