The Japanese Woman: Traditional Image and Changing Reality

By Sumiko Iwao

Book Overview

Westerners and Japanese men have a vivid mental image of Japanese women as dependent, deferential, and devoted to their families--anything but ambitious. In fact, the author shows, Japanese women hold... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0029323150
• ISBN13: 9780029323151
• Release Date: November 1992
• Publisher: The Free Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.7" x 1.0" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

Japanese Woman should be required reading

Any outsider trying to understand the Japanese Culture will find this book indispensable. Ms Iwao gives insight into the changing roles of Japanese Women starting with the period immediately after the war and continuing into the present. She gives stories of the women and statistics to back these stories up. She contrasts the Japanese Woman with her western counterpart. And this isn't a dry narrative -- it's written in such a way that it's hard to put down.