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Dimensions of Japanese society :

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Dimensions of Japanese society :

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gender, margins and mainstream /

Kenneth G. Henshall

xxi, 249 pages ;

22 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-236) and index

pt. 1. The essentials of society: men and women. Hard men, soft men, ideal men, real men: the constructing of maleness. From reigning empress to silly servant: the historical downgrading of the female. Tradition meets the modern world: the hesitant emergence of the new woman. Boys and madonnas, father-figures and virgins: relations between the sexes. The blurrings of gender: homosexuality, bisexuality, and androgyny. -- pt. 2. On the fringes of society: minorities and other marginals. Impure outcasts: the Burakumin. Primitives: the Ainu. Not quite us: Koreans in Japan. Heroic villains: the Yakuza. Off-centre: Okinawans and other outer regional groups. The dreaded outside threat: foreigners and "foreign-tainted" groups. Failures: day-labourers and vagrants. Unwholesome: the diseased. Imperfect and neglected: the physically disabled. Selfish and ungrateful: the mentally impaired. -- pt. 3. The mainstream of society: being a normal Japanese. Being young: socialisation, education, and muted rebellion. Being adult: social responsibility, work, and families. Being old: Confucian ideals and the reality of decrepitude. Being oneself: the individual in a "groupist" society. Being Japanese: a race apart? -- Conclusion: Japan as itself, and the aesthetics of purity

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Japan remains one of the most intriguing yet least understood nations. This balanced and comprehensive analysis includes among its revelations that the Japanese are driven not by a morality based on good and evil, but by what is pure and impure

Marginality, Social-- Japan

Minorities-- Japan

Sex role-- Japan

Social values-- Japan

Japan, Social conditions, 1945-

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Henshall, Kenneth G

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