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Bicycle citizens: the political world of the Japanese housewife
Robin M. LeBlanc with a foreword by Saskia Sassen
Year: 2008, c1999.
Publisher:  University of California Press. 
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Title Page
Copyright and Permissions
Dedication
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Note on Names
CHAPTER ONE: "Supposing Truth Is a Woman – What Then?"
The Unstudied Housewife Citizens of Japan
Liberalism: Its Women, Its Problems
The Nature of the Bicycle Citizens Study
The Presentation of the Study
CHAPTER TWO: The Identity of the "Regular Housewife"
A Community of Housewives
None-of-the-Above Narratives of the Housewife Label
The Housewife as the Presentational Self
Among Friends: Maintaining the Housewife Identity
The Inevitable Housewife in Politics
CHAPTER THREE: Housewives and Citizenship
The World That Is Not There: Politics in Daily Conversation
Distance: A Measure of Politics' Meaning
CHAPTER FOUR: Volunteering against Politics: Housewives, Citizenship, and Community Service
Volunteer Activity and Politics
The Shape of Voluntarism in Japan
Sagyōsho: Life Inside a Volunteer Organization
The Volunteer Ethic
Social Welfare and the Volunteer Ethic
A Brush with Politics at Sagyōsho
Gyōsei Meets Yaruki: Sagyōsho Expands
Conclusion
CHAPTER FIVE: Toward a "Housewifely" Movement: The Seikatsu Club Co-op's Daily Life Politics
A Lively Festival: The Seikatsu Movement
The Seikatsu Club Co-op as a New Social Movement
The Seikatsu Club Co-op as a Housewife's Movement
The Housewife as a Defining Movement Concept
Housewife Consciousness as Political Currency
The Housewife Identification: Latent Political Conflicts
Evaluating Netto Potential in the Long Run
CHAPTER SIX: The Ono Campaign: A "Regular" Housewife in Elite Politics
Ono's Dual Duty: Rhetoric and Organization Compete
The Organization Pressure of Politics
The Political Pressures of Disorganization
A Rhetoric for Whom?
Conclusion
Notes
Foreword
Chapter One: "Supposing Truth Is a Woman"
Chapter Two: Identity of "Regular Housewife"
Chapter Three: Housewives and Citizenship
Chapter Four: Volunteering against Politics
Toward a "Housewifely" Movement
Chapter Six: The Ono Campaign
Conclusion
References
Index
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Title: Bicycle citizens : the political world of the Japanese housewife Robin M. LeBlanc ; with a foreword by Saskia Sassen.
Author: LeBlanc, Robin M., 1966-
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LeBlanc, Robin M., 1966-
Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2008, c1999.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.94078
Subject Headings: • Women in politics -- Japan
• Housewives -- Japan -- Political activity
• Political participation -- Japan
• Housewives -- Japan -- Social conditions
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