Tough choices
Subtitle: bearing an illegitimate child in contemporary Japan
By: Ekaterina Hertog.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780804761291
Subjects: Unmarried mothers -- Japan
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Naturally I believed I would get married" : making the choice; title: Navigating work and welfare; title: Legal discrimination against unwed mothers; title: Are unwed mothers "immoral" or "impressive"? : the role of social stigma and shame in upholding family norms; title: "The worst child abuse is the absence of a parent" : the role of guilt.