A01=Robin M. Le Blanc
A01=Robin M. LeBlanc
Author_Robin M. Le Blanc
Author_Robin M. LeBlanc
breadwinners
campaign functions
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Category=JHMC
Category=JP
cheating
citizens referendum movement
democracy
democratic practice
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ethical agents
ethical being
ethics
ethnography
gender expectations
gender studies
gendered identity
good man
inheritor
japan
japanese masculinity
japanese men
japanese politics
leadership
male dominated political world
masculine honor
masculinity
morality
political choices
politics
power
rural leaders
strategy sessions
tokyo ward assembly
Product details
- ISBN 9780520259171
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 24 Nov 2009
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This beautifully written ethnography follows the lives of two very different Japanese men entering political life in two very different communities. One is the rural leader of a citizens' referendum movement, while the other hopes to succeed his father in a Tokyo ward assembly. Fast-paced and engrossing, "The Art of the Gut" puts the reader behind the scenes to hear speeches, attend campaign functions, and eavesdrop on late-night strategy sessions and one-on-one conversations. In her groundbreaking analysis, Robin M. Le Blanc explores the two men's differing notions of what is expected of a 'good' man and demonstrates how the fundamental desire to be good men constrains their political choices even as it encourages both to become ethical agents. The result is a vibrant and up-to-date picture of politics in Japan today that also addresses masculine gender expectations in a male-dominated political world, the connection between gendered identity and ethical being, and the process by which men who are neither dominant nor marginal to their communities assert themselves both with and against power.
Robin M. Le Blanc is Professor of Politics at Washington and Lee University and is the author of Bicycle Citizens: The Political World of the Japanese Housewife (UC Press).
