Japan : the childless society ? : the crisis of motherhood
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Bibliographic Information
Japan : the childless society ? : the crisis of motherhood
Routledge, 1997
- : hbk
- : pbk
- Other Title
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Un pays en mal d'enfants
Available at 115 libraries
Note
Reprint. Originally published as Un pays en mal d'enfants: Éditions La Découverte, c1993
Bibliography: p. [227]-234
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Disillusioned by long hours at home alone and by demands from the older generation, Japanese women are marrying later, resulting in a sharp decline in the Japanese birth rate. Muriel Jolivet considers the reasons why Japanese women are finding it increasingly difficult to accept the terms and conditions of motherhood.
Japan: The Childless Society explores the major factors contributing to maternal malaise in Japan including:
* the 'Ten Commandments of the Good Mother'
* the changing role of the father
* education and careers
* nostalgia from older generations
Drawing on extensive interviews with Japanese women and translated into English for the first time, this innovative study examines the implications behind the declining birth rate and looks towards the future of a country that is in danger of becoming a 'childless society'.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Young mothers in a dilemma
- Chapter 2 Why have children?
- Chapter 3 Fathers
- Chapter 4 The ten commandments of the good mother
- Chapter 5 The nostalgia for yesterday's mothers
- Chapter 6 Demographic malaise
- Chapter 7 The new order
- Chapter 8 The achievement of working mothers
- By way of a conclusion
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