Steel butterflies : Japanese women and the American experience /

Steel Butterflies: Japanese Women and the American Experience examines the role of women in Japan as compared to the United States, approaching the subject from a new and thought-provoking angle. Not only does the reader learn how Japanese women view their own country from the vantage point of livin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Diggs, Nancy Brown
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1998.
Temas:
Japanese American women > Social conditions.
Women > Japan > Social conditions.
Sex role > United States.
Sex role > Japan.
Américaines d'origine japonaise > Conditions sociales.
Femmes > Japon > Conditions sociales.
Rôle selon le sexe > États-Unis.
Rôle selon le sexe > Japon.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Feminism & Feminist Theory.
Sex role.
Women > Social conditions.
Japan.
United States.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Strangers in a strange land ; 1. The first Japanese in America ; 2. Problems of today's sojourners
  • Part II. Women in Japan: The private sphere ; 3. Household managers ; 4. Wives ; 5. Mothers ; 6. Metamorphoses ; 7. Looking back
  • Part III. Women in Japan: The public sphere ; 8. An overview ; 9. The young single woman ; 10. The working mother ; 11. The career woman ; 12. Modern times
  • Part IV. The American experience ; 13. Profiles ; 14. Living conditions ; 15. Choices, restrictions ; 16. Education ; 17. American women ; 18. Connections
  • Summing up
  • Appendix A
  • Appendix B
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.

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