Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. xxix, 439 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Summary

1. "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

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

Uniform title

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

Alternative title

1. Collected papers of Takie Lebra
2. Takie Lebra : identity, gender, and status in Japan

Subject

1. Since 1945
2. National characteristics, Japanese
3. Identity (Psychology) > Japan
4. Women > Japan
5. Social status > Japan
6. 71.31 sexes and their interrelations
7. Civilization
8. Identity (Psychology)
9. Social status
10. Women
11. Identität
12. Geschlechterverhältnis
13. Sekseverschillen
14. Identiteit
15. Sociale status
16. Kvinnor > Japan
17. Japan > Civilization > 1945-
18. Japan
19. Japan

Contents

1. 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.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.