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Explores a central paradox of the Japanese economy - the relegation of women to low-paying, dead-end jobs in a workforce that depends on their labor to maintain its status as a world economic leader. This book provides an examination of the role of gender in Japan's phenomenal postwar economic growth.

Drawing on the academic literature and his own familiarity with current trends and controversies, Fiorino offers a view of the institutional and analytic aspects of environmental policy-making.

This text explores the role of native place associations in the development of modern Chinese urban society and the role of native-place identity in the development of urban nationalism.

Offers an account of a life steeped in and shaped by the movies. Part autobiography, part film analysis, and part social history, this title leads us through a series of screen memories, making us aware of movies as markers of the past - when and where we saw them, with whom, and what we did afterward.

Suitable for fans and students of the films of Alfred Hitchcock, this title features annotated bibliography and indexes.

Starting with the crippling custom of footbinding, this work presents a study of Chinese American women during the first half of the twentieth century. Using this symbol of subjugation to examine social change in the lives of these women, it shows the stages of 'unbinding' that occurred between the turn of the century and the end of World War II.

An array of essays considers the contingent and shifting meanings of gender and the body in contemporary Southeast Asia. By analyzing femininity and masculinity as fluid processes rather than social or biological givens, it provides ways of understanding how gender intersects with local, national, and transnational forms of knowledge and power.

Deals with one of the most morally complex areas of everyday life: the relationship between parents and children. This work aims to reflect on the moral perplexities of ordinary life and ordinary people. It states that ethical theory needs a richer description than it now has of the moral life of parents and children.

This text contends that in French medieval culture the representation of women exemplified the use of injurious language. It shows how the figure of the female respondent became an instrument for disputing the dominant models of representing women.

This is an ethnography of the Mekeo of Papua New Guinea. Based on 20 years of fieldwork, this detailed study of Mekeo esoteric knowledge, cosmology, and self-conceptualizations recasts accepted notions about magic and selfhood.

Departing from an essentialist concept of the self, this volume advances the cross-cultural study of selfhood with three contributions to literature.

This text explores Latin American vanguardism's provocative and polemic nature. The movement was stimulated by the European avantgarde movements of the World War I era, but, as this book argues, it developed a very distinct voice and character.

A neolyricism is now replacing the formalism of the 1960s, `70s and `80s in avant-garde French poetry and prose. This text shows how the ideological definition of writing has given way to more open forms of writing - ordinary human experiences are now finding a place in the text.

In this study of popular and scientific responses to tuberculosis in 19th-century France, the author provides a historical perspective on a disease that is making an alarming comeback in the United States and Europe.

This is a critical analysis of the development of film theory since 1968. It shows how debates concerning the literary principles of modernism - semiotics, structuralism, psychoanalysis, Marxism and feminism - have transformed our understanding of cinematic meaning.

This work critically but sympathetically examines Schopenhauer's main work "The World as Will and Representation", demonstrating that the philosophical system it puts forth does constitute a consistent whole.

Tackling one of philosophy's key themes, this book develops the controversial thesis that the world is a flux. It applies this doctrine to Western theories of history and the interpretation of cultural phenomena, offering analysis of the logic, methodology and metaphysics of interpretation.

In the last decade of Dryden's life, he wrote four new works: a dramatic opera; a tragedy; a tragicomedy; and appendages to an old comedy by John Fletcher. The plays are presented in this volume: "King Arthur", "Love Triumphant", "The Secular Masque" and "The Pilgrim".

A history of Jewish life in Europe from the fourteenth through the nineteenth century that breaks through the boundaries of traditional narratives. It concentrates on the creative aspects of Jewish life, and on continuities and correspondences among very different local Jewish communities.

A paradox: Ezra Pound, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, and Louis Zukofsky all wrote their central works to be 'masterpieces'. And yet these writings are so hard to read. This work shows how the inaccessibility of their writing reveals the conflict between the goals of social relevance and literary innovation.

Looking at the households where Javanese women live and the factories where they labour, Diane Wolf reveals the contradictions, constraints and changes in women's lives in the Third World and identifies the complex dynamics of class, gender, agrarian change and industrialization in rural Java.

Proposes a multi layered understanding of the cultural construction of the mother/daughter relationship. This book shows that since World War II, mainstream culture has represented the mother/daughter relationship as one of never-ending conflict and thus promoted an 'ideology of separation' as necessary to the daughter's emancipation and maturity.

This ethnography examines the manner in which native and immigrant citizens of Kodaira, a Tokyo suburb, have restructured the past and imagined the future of their city in a quest for an "authentic" Japanese community.

The telephone looms large in our lives, as ever present in modern societies as cars and television. This title presents the social history of this vital technology - how we encountered, tested, and ultimately embraced it with enthusiasm. It explores how, when, and why Americans started communicating in this manner.

Participants in the current debate regarding the literary canon generally separate the established literary order - of which Shakespeare is the most visible icon - from emerging minority literatures. This study insists that the two realms should be brought together.

A collection of essays by novelists, journalists and cultural critics which addresses the myths and interprets the media images of Los Angeles. Ranging from political commentary to literary impressions, this anthology should engage all those curious about the USA's second-largest city.

Addresses the complex moral questions raised by AIDS for health-care workers, politicians, policy makers, and even people with AIDS themselves. This work offers insight into our attempts - popular and academic, American and non-American, scientific and political - to make moral sense of pain.

This is a collection of film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum's work. Written over a span of 21 years, these essays cover a broad range of films - from Hollywood blockbusters to foreign art movies to experimental cinema. They include reviews, commentary and analysis of the practice of film criticism.

Examines patterns of technological and social evolution specific to East-Asian wet-rice economies in order to clarify some general historical trends in economic development.

From the 'Red Menace' to Tiananmen Square, the United States and China have long had an emotionally tumultuous relationship. This book examines the moral history of US-China relations. It targets the forces that have shaped this surprisingly strong tie between two strikingly different nations.