Japan: The Childless Society?

The Crisis of Motherhood

By: Muriel Jolivet, Anne-Marie Glasheen (Translator)

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Hardcover | 2 January 1997 | Edition Number 1

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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''.

Industry Reviews

"The author does a good job of vividly presenting the dilemma confronting young Japanese women as they try to formulate a life encompassing motherhood, self-fulfillment and social usefulness, as Japanese people perceive it."-"Education About Asian ..."this book is very successful in delineating various issues surrounding marriage, reproduction, motherhood, and child rearing in contemporary Japan and relating them to underlying cultural factors. It is particularly valuable because, despite abundant literature in Japanese, there are few books on this topic in English. This book is a welcome addition to the literature and greatly contributes to the anthropology of reproduction."-"American Anthropologist, Sep, 1998 "This is not a conventional sociological analysis, yet it is wonderfully entertaining and enlightening."-Catherine Hakim, London School of Economics, "Contemporary Sociology

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