From lists of best-selling nonfiction books in Japan and the United States, we selected fifteen Japanese and twenty-eight American books that by title, cover, and table of contents are directly addressed to women or to social issues of direct concern to women. We chose best-sellers in hardcover or paperback, trade and mass market, for the […]

From lists of best-selling nonfiction books in Japan and the United States, we selected fifteen Japanese and twenty-eight American books that by title, cover, and table of contents are directly addressed to women or to social issues of direct concern to women. We chose best-sellers in hardcover or paperback, trade and mass market, for the […]

(Xiltural room is created within a broad context, and while the Japanese and American contexts are similar in some ways, they very much differ in others. Both societies have a “past” in which most women were more subordinate to men than they are today. Much of the cultural negotiation in each society centers on how […]

(Xiltural room is created within a broad context, and while the Japanese and American contexts are similar in some ways, they very much differ in others. Both societies have a “past” in which most women were more subordinate to men than they are today. Much of the cultural negotiation in each society centers on how […]

American and Japanese Advice Books for Women WITH KAZUKO TANAKA Nowadays husbands and wives, parents and children don’t say "hello" to each other in the morning. Sometimes not only does the wife not prepare breakfast, she doesn’t even get out of bed. If you think this is sex equality and that the man is a […]

American and Japanese Advice Books for Women WITH KAZUKO TANAKA Nowadays husbands and wives, parents and children don’t say "hello" to each other in the morning. Sometimes not only does the wife not prepare breakfast, she doesn’t even get out of bed. If you think this is sex equality and that the man is a […]

Morgan and Brown both tell women to expect less caretaking from their husbands than they should expect to give. As Brown notes flippantly, “At my house there isn’t much wife coddling during illness, but then nobody female is ever ill at our house so the unilateral sick-care plan works okay.”16 Morgan finds support in the […]

Morgan and Brown both tell women to expect less caretaking from their husbands than they should expect to give. As Brown notes flippantly, “At my house there isn’t much wife coddling during illness, but then nobody female is ever ill at our house so the unilateral sick-care plan works okay.”16 Morgan finds support in the […]

One controversy running through both traditional and egalitarian advice books is whether to use feminine wiles; authors on both sides feel obliged to take a position on the question. In nineteenth-century America, “feminine wiles” were an acknowledged if not much admired way in which a woman might get what she wanted indirectly when direct access […]

One controversy running through both traditional and egalitarian advice books is whether to use feminine wiles; authors on both sides feel obliged to take a position on the question. In nineteenth-century America, “feminine wiles” were an acknowledged if not much admired way in which a woman might get what she wanted indirectly when direct access […]