Molding Japanese minds
Subtitle: the state in everyday life
By: Sheldon Garon.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
Subjects: Social control -- Japan -- History.; Japan -- Social policy.; Japan -- Social conditions -- 1868-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-296) and index.
Table of contents: title: Social management: an introduction; title: Part one: state and society before 1945; title: The evolution of "Japanese-style" welfare; title: Defining orthodoxy and heterodoxy; title: Thw world's oldest debate? Regulating prostitution and illicit sexuality; title: Integrating women in public life: women's groups and the state; title: Part two: social management in postwar Japan; title: Re-creating the channels of moral suasion; title: Sexual politics and the feminization of social management; title: Managing spiritual life and material well-being; title: Epilogue.