Passages to Modernity : : Motherhood, Childhood, and Social Reform in Early Twentieth-Century Japan / / Kathleen S. Uno.
Contemporary Japanese women are often presented as devoted full-time wives and mothers. At the extreme, they are stereotyped as "education mothers" (kyoiku mama), completely dedicated to the academic success of their children. Children of working mothers are pitied; day-care users, both ch...
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Uno, Kathleen S., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Passages to Modernity : Motherhood, Childhood, and Social Reform in Early Twentieth-Century Japan / Kathleen S. Uno. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [1999] ©1999 1 online resource (248 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- 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 restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Contemporary Japanese women are often presented as devoted full-time wives and mothers. At the extreme, they are stereotyped as "education mothers" (kyoiku mama), completely dedicated to the academic success of their children. Children of working mothers are pitied; day-care users, both children and mothers, are faintly disparaged for their inadequate home lives; hired babysitters are virtually unknown. Yet historical evidence reveals a strikingly different picture of Japanese motherhood and childcare at the beginning of the twentieth century. In contrast to today, child tending by non-maternal caregivers was widely accepted at all levels of Japanese society. Day-care centers flourished, and there was virtually no expectation of exclusive maternal care of children, even infants. The patterns of the formation of modern Japanese attitudes toward motherhood, childhood, child-rearing, and home life become visible as this study traces the early twentieth-century rise of Japanese day-care centers, institutions established by middle-class philanthropists and reformers to provide for the physical well-being and mental and moral development of urban lower-class preschool children. Day-care gained broad support in turn-of-the-century Japan for several reasons. For one, day-care did not clash with widely accepted norms of child care. A second factor was the perception of public and private policymakers that day-care held the promise of social and national progress through economic and moral betterment of the urban lower classes. Finally, day-care offered working mothers the opportunity to earn a better livelihood with fewer worries about their children. In spite of emerging notions that total devotion to child-rearing was a woman's highest calling, Japanese nationalism, a signal force in the genesis of the modern Japanese state, economy, and middle-class culture, fed a deep wellspring of support for day-care and fostered significant reshaping of motherhood, childhood, home life, and view of the urban lower classes. Passages to Modernity is an important and original contribution to our understanding of the institutional and ideological reach of the early twentieth-century state and the contested emergence of a striking new discourse about woman as domestic caregiver and homemaker. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Child care Japan History 20th century. Day care centers Japan History 20th century. Mother and child Japan History 20th century. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000 9783110564150 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824863883 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780824863883 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780824863883/original |
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Frontmatter -- 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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Frontmatter -- 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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