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Saturday, March 24, 2012

Book Review Bicycle Citizens Japanese Housewives

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Bicycle Citizens Japanese Housewives

Bicycle Citizens Japanese Housewives is not per se a bicycle book. It is rather a book on Japanese society, and a key component therein: housewives.

The work is the "first ethnographic study of the politics of the average female citizen in Japan."

Writer Robin LeBlanc examines the relationship between gender and liberal democratic citizenship, having done detailed ethnographic fieldwork among suburban Tokyo housewives and others.

LeBlanc comes to the not particularly surprising conclusion that Japanese housewives are ultimately not without a political world.

For anyone who has lived in Japan, the book's conclusion is not a surprise - outside of boardrooms, Nagatacho (home to the Japanese Diet), and Kasumigaseki (home the ministries), much of Japanese life is indeed controlled by women.

The work however is well written and engaging.


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