Bicycle Citizens
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20th century japanese culture
20th century japanese politics
A01=Robin M. Le Blanc
A01=Robin M. LeBlanc
Author_Robin M. Le Blanc
Author_Robin M. LeBlanc
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community service
consumer cooperative movements
elite politics
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ethnography
female diet member
field research
fieldwork
gender studies
gender theory
housewives
japan
japanese citizenship
japanese culture
japanese housewives
japanese male politician
japanese politics
japanese society
japanese women
liberal democratic citizenship
political world
politics
regular housewife
social science
sociology
the ono campaign
tokyo
volunteer groups
Product details
- ISBN 9780520212916
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 05 Mar 1999
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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While the typical Japanese male politician glides through his district in air-conditioned taxis, the typical female voter trundles along the side streets on a simple bicycle. In this first ethnographic study of the politics of the average female citizen in Japan, Robin LeBlanc argues that this taxi-bicycle contrast reaches deeply into Japanese society. To study the relationship between gender and liberal democratic citizenship, LeBlanc conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork in suburban Tokyo among housewives, volunteer groups, consumer cooperative movements, and the members of a committee to reelect a female Diet member who used her own housewife status as the key to victory. LeBlanc argues that contrary to popular perception, Japanese housewives are ultimately not without a political world. Full of new and stimulating material, engagingly written, and deft in its weaving of theoretical perspectives with field research, this study will not only open up new dialogues between gender theory and broader social science concerns but also provide a superb introduction to politics in Japan as a whole.
Robin M. LeBlanc is Assistant Professor of Politics at Washington and Lee University. Saskia Sassen is Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago, and author of Globalization and Its Discontents (1998).
