Manners and mischief
Subtitle: gender, power, and etiquette in Japan
By: edited by Jan Bardsley and Laura Miller
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780520267831; 9780520267848
Subjects: Etiquette; Power (Social sciences); Sex role; Social life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-268) and index.
Table of contents: title: Genji guides, or minding Murasaki / Linda H. Chance; title: Box-lunch etiquette : conduct guides and Kabuki onnagata / Maki Isaka; title: The perfect woman : Geisha, etiquette, and the world of Japanese traditional arts / Kelly M. Foreman; title: Mortification, mockery, and dissembling : Western adventures in Japanese etiquette / Gavin James Campbell; title: A dinner party is not a revolution : space, gender, and hierarchy in Meiji Japan / Sally A. Hastings; title: The oyaji gets a makeover : guides for Japanese salarymen in the new millennium / Jan Bardsley; title: The dignified woman who loves to be "lovable" / Hiroko Hirakawa; title: Making and marketing mothers : guides to pregnancy in modern Japan / Amanda C. Seaman; title: When manners are not enough : the newspaper advice column and the "etiquette" of cultural ideology in contemporary Japan / Janet S. Shibamoto-Smith; title: A community of manners : advice columns in lesbian and gay magazines in Japan / Hideko Abe; title: Behavior that offends : comics and other images of incivility / Laura Miller.