Passages to Modernity: Motherhood, Childhood, and Social Reform in Early Twentieth-Century Japan 9780824863883

Contemporary Japanese women are often presented as devoted full-time wives and mothers. At the extreme, they are stereot

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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 Beginnings
Chapter 2 Child-Rearing in the Nineteenth-Century
Chapter 3 Day-Care and Moral Improvement: The Case of Futaba Yōchien
Chapter 4 Day-Care and Economic Improvement: The Kobe War Memorial Day-Care Association
Chapter 5 Nationalism, Motherhood, and the Early Taishō Expansion of Day-Care
Chapter 6 Late Taishō Day-Care: New Justifications and Old Goals
Chapter 7 Conclusion
Epilogue: Since 1945
Notes
Bibliography

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