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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English French |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1997.
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| 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.