A01=Dorothy Robins-mowry
Author_Dorothy Robins-mowry
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Category=JP
contemporary Japanese gender dynamics
cultural heritage
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female economic agency
gender roles Japan
industrialized democracy
Japanese customs
Japanese social structure
Japanese women
Japanese women's organizations
modernization impact Japan
women's political participation
World War II
Product details
- ISBN 9780367308254
- Weight: 600g
- Dimensions: 152 x 237mm
- Publication Date: 31 May 2021
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Ever since Japan and the West discovered one another, Western observers have extolled the surface virtues of Japanese women but attended very little to what they are really like. In this new, balanced view of the role of Japanese women in their country's swiftly changing society, Dr. Robins-Mowry destroys the Western stereotype of the shy, perhaps
A foreign service officer in the U.S. Information Agency (USIA) since 1963, Dr. Dorothy Robins-Mowry has served overseas in Japan and Iran. From 1963 to 1971 she was chief of educational exchanges, cultural programs officer, and women's activities officer in the U.S. Information Service in Tokyo. She currently holds the position of policy officer in USIA for the Office of North Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. In 1980 and 1981 Dr. Robins-Mowry was visiting professor of political science at the University of Maryland, teaching courses on women and politics.
