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Japan's Private Spheres: Autonomy in Japanese History, 1600-1930

Japan's Private Spheres: Autonomy in Japanese History, 1600-1930

Puck Brecher, William

Hardcover

General PsychologyGeneral SociologyJapanese History

ISBN10: 9004447547
ISBN13: 9789004447547
Publisher: Brill
Published: Apr 1 2021
Pages: 364
Weight: 1.55
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.38 Depth: 9.76
Language: English
Japan's Private Spheres: Autonomy in Japanese History, 1600-1930 traces the shifting nature of autonomy in early modern and modern Japan. In this far-reaching, interdisciplinary study, W. Puck Brecher explores the historical development of the private and its evolving relationship with public authority, a dynamic that evokes stereotypes about an alleged dearth of individual agency in Japanese society. It does so through a montage of case studies. For the early modern era, case studies examine peripheral living spaces, boyhood, and self-interrogation in the arts. For the modern period, they explore strategic deviance, individuality in Meiji education, modern leisure, and body-maintenance. Analysis of these disparate private realms illuminates evolving conceptualizations of the private and its reciprocal yet often-contested relationship to the state.

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