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Ekaterina Hertog - Tough Choices - 9780804761291 - V9780804761291
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Tough Choices

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Description for Tough Choices hardcover. As is the case in Western industrialized countries, Japan is seeing a rise in the number of unmarried couples, later marriages, and divorces. What sets Japan apart, however, is that the percentage of children born out of wedlock has hardly changed in the years. This book provides a study of single motherhood in contemporary Japan. Num Pages: 240 pages, 9 tables, 4 figures, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 431.

As is the case in Western industrialized countries, Japan is seeing a rise in the number of unmarried couples, later marriages, and divorces. What sets Japan apart, however, is that the percentage of children born out of wedlock has hardly changed in the past fifty years. This book provides the first systematic study of single motherhood in contemporary Japan.

Seeking to answer why illegitimate births in Japan remain such a rarity, Hertog spent over three years interviewing single mothers, academics, social workers, activists, and policymakers about the beliefs, values, and choices that unmarried Japanese mothers have. Pairing her findings with ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804761291
SKU
V9780804761291
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Ekaterina Hertog
Ekaterina Hertog is a Career Development Fellow in the Sociology of Japan at the University of Oxford.

Reviews for Tough Choices
"In recent years Japan has seen dramatic demographic changes, but extramarital childbirth remains taboo. Hertog convincingly demonstrates the remarkable staying power of the norm of the two-parent family, as conveyed in the poignant words of women who, for myriad reasons, gave birth out of wedlock."
Glenda S. Roberts
Waseda University
"I found Hertog's book to be an ... Read more

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