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Haruko's World: A Japanese Farm Woman and Her Community

Haruko's World: A Japanese Farm Woman and Her Community Paperback - 1983

by Bernstein, Gail Lee

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Stanford University Press, 1983. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title Haruko's World: A Japanese Farm Woman and Her Community
  • Author Bernstein, Gail Lee
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 244
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, CA, U.S.A.
  • Date 1983
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G0804712875I3N00
  • ISBN 9780804712873 / 0804712875
  • Weight 0.58 lbs (0.26 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.45 x 5.49 x 0.48 in (21.46 x 13.94 x 1.22 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 82061783
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.42

From the rear cover

In Japan as in the United States, family farming is on the wane, increasingly rejected by the younger generation in favor of more promising economic pursuits and more sophisticated comforts. Yet for centuries past, the village and the family farm have constituted the world of the vast majority of Japanese women, as of Japanese men. The dramatic economic and demographic developments of the past two decades have orced extensive changes in the lives of Japanese farm women, many of hwom have been left virtually in charge of their family farms.
This book is a study of Japanese farm women's lives in the present era: its central figure is 42-year-old Haruko, a complex, vibrant woman who both exemplifies and makes a mockery of the stereotype of Japanese women. Through Haruko we learn the work routine, family relationships, and social life of the women who are the mainstay of Japanese agriculture. Other women from Haruko's village also figure in the story, and the author's observations of them, based largely on a six-month stay with Haruko and her family in 1974-75, are supplemented with data from questionnaires and personal interviews.
An epilogue recounts the author's return to Haruko's village in 1982 and describes the changes that have occurred since 1975 in the lives of Haruko's family and other village women. The book is illustrated with photographs.