Fashion Talks by Shira Tarrant Marjorie Jolles

Author:Shira Tarrant, Marjorie Jolles [Shira Tarrant, Marjorie Jolles]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781438443218
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Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2012-08-29T00:00:00+00:00

Shifting Demographics and the Changing Face of Female Independence

Although women in twentieth-century Japan could expect a life of second-class status, young Japanese women today are increasingly reluctant to surrender their independence.20 In her seminal work on Japanese culture and society, The Chrysanthemum and the Sword, Ruth Benedict discusses women's lot from the start of the postwar period until 1967:

Whatever one's age, one's position in the hierarchy depends on whether one is male or female. The Japanese woman walks behind her husband and has a lower status….21 A woman … wants children not only for her emotional satisfaction … but because it is only as a mother that she gains status. A childless wife has a most insecure position in the family…. Japanese mothers [therefore] … begin their childbearing early, and girls of nineteen bear more children than women of any age…. [As it is considered their honorable duty] women may not cry out in labor.22

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