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Author Lebra, Takie Sugiyama, 1930-

Title Identity, gender, and status in Japan : collected papers of Takie Lebra
Published Folkestone, Kent, U.K. : Global Oriental, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xxix, 439 pages) : illustrations
Series The collected papers of twentieth century Japanese writers on Japan ; v. 2
Collected papers of twentieth century Japanese writers on Japan ; v. 2.
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 418-426) and indexes
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SUBJECT Honʼyaku iin shachū Japan gnd
Subject National characteristics, Japanese.
Identity (Psychology) -- Japan
Women -- Japan
Social status -- Japan
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Civilization
Identity (Psychology)
National characteristics, Japanese
Social status
Women
Identität
Geschlechterverhältnis
Sekseverschillen.
Identiteit.
Sociale status.
Social status -- Japan.
Kvinnor -- Japan.
SUBJECT Japan -- Civilization -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069378
Subject Japan
Japan.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004213418
9004213414
1281805750
9781281805751
9786611805753
6611805753
Other Titles Collected papers of Takie Lebra
Title page verso: Takie Lebra : identity, gender, and status in Japan