Japan, the childless society? : the crisis of motherhood /

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 condit...

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Main Author: Jolivet, Muriel
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
French
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:0203975324
9780203975329
0415146461
9780415146463
041514647X
9780415146470
9786610115648
6610115648
9781134757152
1134757158
1134757166
9781134757169
1280115645
9781280115646
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Young mothers in a dilemma
  • 2. Why have children?
  • 3. Fathers
  • 4. The ten commandments of the good mother
  • 5. The nostalgia for yesterday's mothers
  • 6. Demographic malaise
  • 7. The new order
  • 8. The achievement of working mothers.