Gender and Family in Japan

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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The first part consists of four chapters that discuss women migrant workers in the Tokugawa period, women’s work, and family strategies in the underdeveloped regions of the country, conflicts between child-rearing and women’s work on family farms, and living standards of teenaged girls in early twentieth-century Japan.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2021-01-15
Mått155 x 235 x 10 mm
Vikt260 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieMonograph Series of the Socio-Economic History Society, Japan
Antal sidor150
FörlagSpringer Verlag, Singapore
ISBN9789811399114

Tillhör följande kategorier

Sociologi inom Samhalle och politik
Genusvetenskap inom Samhalle och politik
Asiens historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Ekonomisk historia inom Ekonomi och ledarskap

Editors:Nobuko Okuda is a professor of Nagoya City University. She obtained a Ph.D. in social history from the University of Warwick in 1984. Her main research field is the gender and social history of modern and contemporary Britain.Tetsuhiko Takai is an associate professor of economic history at Hokkaido University. He obtained a Ph.D. in social science from Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in 1999. His main research field is the economic and business history of France and Francophone Asia-Africa from the nineteenth century onwards.

Part I Perspective on the History of Women and Family in Japanese Economic Development.- 1 The Labour Market and Labour Migration in Small Post Towns in Early Modern Japan: The Relationship between a Town and its Outlying Villages in the Northeastern Domain of Nihonmatsu in the Eighteenth to Nineteenth Centuries(Miyuki Takahashi).- 2 Economic Development and Labour Supply in Underdeveloped Regions: An Analysis of the Labour Supply of Domestic Servants in Northern Akita Prefecture, Japan, 1910–1924(Masahiro Ogiyama).- 3 Childrearing Methods and Decreased Growth: An Examination of Infant Health in the Farming Communities of Taishō Japan (1912-1926)(Kazunori Murakoshi).- 4 Changes in Female Height and Age of Menarche in Modern Japan, 1870s-1980s: Reconsideration of Living Standards during the Interwar Period (Ken’ichi Tomobe).- Part II Book Reviews.- 5 Review of Satomi Kurosu (ed.), Rekishi Jinkōgaku kara mita Kekkon, Rikon, Saikon (Marriage, Divorce and Re-marriage from the Perspective of Historical Demography) (Motoyasu Takahashi).- 6 Review of Chikako Katō, Kindai Nihon no Kokumin Tōgō to Jendā (National Integration and Gender in Modern Japan (Kazue Enoki).- 7 Review of Hiroko Nagano and Yūko Matsumoto (ed.) Jendāshi Sōsho 6 Keizai to Shōhi Shakai (Gender History Series, Vol. 6: Consumer Society and the Economy)(Manabu Ozeki).- 8 Review of Toshiko Himeoka, Mayuho Hasegawa, et al., Jendā (Kindai Yōroppa no Tankyū 11)(Gender: In Search of Modern Europe 11)(Nobuko Okuda).- Index.