This book explores the employment of Japanese women born in the 1960s and 1970s who
experienced childbirth and raised children in the 1990s and the early 2000s. During this …

… provides a unique perspective from Japan, but also one that is … voice of a Japanese woman
and mother, the author herself a … especially important topic of motherhood and work—which, …

… Single mothers’ stories allow us not only to … single mothers. Faced with downward mobility
and challenging living conditions as working mothers and heads of household, single mothers…

… motherhood are reinforced in contemporary Japan, and give rise to significant social distinctions
between families and mothers… history interviews with single mothers conducted in Tokyo…

… In the first part of the essay I focus on the early theorization of maternal society, on one
hand, and the formation of mothercentered domesticity in rapidly industrializing Japan, on the …

… Japanese family, relatively few have focused directly on the voices of contemporary Japanese
mothers… s perceptions of what the role of mother entails and how they evaluate themselves …

… [t]he Japanese mother’s childrearing techniques engrave the actual and symbolic warmth
and importance of the home … forming a strong association between home and mother” (1993…

… mama, the contemporary Japanese “education mother” who … in Japanese education in
the West, the education mother … among the images of Japanese womanhood both overseas …

… and practices of motherhood in contemporary Japan and class differences in … of motherhood.
I then introduce the general situation of single mothers and how it affects single mothers’ …

… mothers are also socialized into becoming "good mothers." The issue is critical for working
mothers in Japanese … a good wife and wise mother but in the contemporary context, in which …