Steel butterflies
Subtitle: Japanese women and the American experience
By: Nancy Brown Diggs.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
Subjects: Japanese American women -- Social conditions.; Women -- Japan -- Social conditions.; Sex role -- United States.; Sex role -- Japan.
Description: Steel Butterflies: Japanese Women and the American Experience examines the role of women in Japan as compared to the United States, approaching the subject from a new and thought-provoking angle. Not only does the reader learn how Japanese women view their own country from the vantage point of living in the United States, but their candid remarks also give Americans the opportunity to see themselves as others see them.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-197) and index.