Bicycle citizens : the political world of the Japanese housewife /

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Author / Creator:LeBlanc, Robin M., 1966-
Imprint:Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©1999.
Description:1 online resource (xvii, 243 pages).
Language:English
Series:Asia-Local studies/global themes
Asia--local studies/global themes.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11106594
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ISBN:9780520920613
0520920619
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9780585241395
9780520212909
0520212908
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-237) and index.
English.
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Summary:Annotation While the typical Japanese male politician glides through his district in air-conditioned taxis, the typical female voter trundles along the side streets on a simple bicycle. In this first ethnographic study of the politics of the average female citizen in Japan, Robin LeBlanc argues that this taxi-bicycle contrast reaches deeply into Japanese society.
To study the relationship between gender and liberal democratic citizenship, LeBlanc conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork in suburban Tokyo among housewives, volunteer groups, consumer cooperative movements, and the members of a committee to reelect a female Diet member who used her own housewife status as the key to victory. LeBlanc argues that contrary to popular perception, Japanese housewives are ultimately not without a political world.
Full of new and stimulating material, engagingly written, and deft in its weaving of theoretical perspectives with field research, this study will not only open up new dialogues between gender theory and broader social science concerns but also provide a superb introduction to politics in Japan as a whole.
Other form:Print version: LeBlanc, Robin M., 1966- Bicycle citizens. Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©1999 0520212908
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