TY  - BOOK
AU  - LeBlanc,Robin M.
TI  - Bicycle citizens: the political world of the Japanese housewife 
T2  - Asia-Local studies/global themes
SN  - 9780520920613
AV  - HQ1236.5.J3 L43 1999eb
U1  - 305.42/0952 21
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Berkeley, Calif.
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Women
KW  - Political activity
KW  - Japan
KW  - Housewives
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Political participation
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Feminism & Feminist Theory
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Social Sciences
KW  - hilcc
KW  - Gender & Ethnic Studies
KW  - Gender Studies & Sexuality
KW  - Politics
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-237) and index; Foreword / Saskia Sassen -- 1. "Supposing Truth Is a Woman -- What Then?" -- 2. The Identity of the "Regular Housewife" -- 3. Housewives and Citizenship -- 4. Volunteering against Politics: Housewives, Citizenship, and Community Service -- 5. Toward a "Housewifely" Movement: The Seikatsu Club Co-op's Daily Life Politics -- 6. The Ono Campaign: A "Regular" Housewife in Elite Politics
N2  - Annotation; 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.<br />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 victory. LeBlanc argues that contrary to popular perception, Japanese housewives are ultimately not without a political world.<br />Full of new and stimulating material, engagingly written, and deft in its weaving of theoretical perspectives with field research, this study will not only open up new dialogues between gender theory and broader social science concerns but also provide a superb introduction to politics in Japan as a whole
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