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Bicycle Citizens: The Political World of the Japanese Housewife
Robin M. Le Blanc
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Paperback. 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. Studying the politics of the average female citizen in Japan, this title argues that this taxi-bicycle contrast reaches deeply into Japanese society. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. Num Pages: 263 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFSJ1; JHM; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 54.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
263
Condition
New
Series
Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes
Number of Pages
263
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520212916
SKU
V9780520212916
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About Robin M. Le Blanc
Robin M. LeBlanc is Assistant Professor of Politics at Washington and Lee University. Saskia Sassen is Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago, and author of Globalization and Its Discontents (1998).
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