Gender and Family in Japan

By Nobuko Okuda

Book Overview

Part I Perspective on the History of Women and Family in Japanese Economic Development
1 The Labour Market and Labour Migration in Small Post Towns in Early Modern Japan: The Relationship between a Town and its Outlying Villages in the Northeastern Domain of Nihonmatsu in the Eighteenth to Nineteenth CenturiesMiyuki Takahashi
2 Economic Development and Labour Supply in Underdeveloped Regions: An Analysis of the Labour Supply of Domestic Servants in Northern Akita Prefecture, Japan, 1910-1924Masahiro Ogiyama
3 Childrearing Methods and Decreased Growth: An Examination of Infant Health in the Farming Communities of Taishō Japan (1912-1926)Kazunori Murakoshi
4 Changes in Female Height and Age of Menarche in Modern Japan, 1870s-1980s: Reconsideration of Living Standards during the Interwar PeriodKen'ichi Tomobe

Part II Book Reviews
5 Review of Satomi Kurosu (ed.), Rekishi Jinkōgaku kara mita Kekkon, Rikon, Saikon (Marriage, Divorce and Re-marriage from the Perspective of Historical Demography) Motoyasu Takahashi
6 Review of Chikako Katō, Kindai Nihon no Kokumin Tōgō to Jendā (National Integration and Gender in Modern JapanKazue Enoki
7 Review of Hiroko Nagano and Yūko Matsumoto (ed.) Jendāshi Sōsho 6 Keizai to Shōhi Shakai (Gender History Series, Vol. 6: Consumer Society and the Economy)Manabu Ozeki
8 Review of Toshiko Himeoka, Mayuho Hasegawa, et al., Jendā (Kindai Yōroppa no Tankyū 11)(Gender: In Search of Modern Europe 11)Nobuko Okuda
Index

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9811399115
• ISBN13: 9789811399114
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"