Manners and Mischief

Gender, Power, and Etiquette in Japan

By: Jan Bardsley (Editor), Laura Miller (Editor)

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Paperback | 21 April 2011 | Edition Number 1

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Offering a concise, entertaining snapshot of Japanese society, Manners and Mischief examines etiquette guides, advice literature, and other such instruction for behavior from the early modern period to the present day and discovers how manners do in fact make the nation. Eleven accessibly written essays consider a spectrum of cases, from the geisha party to gay bar cool, executive grooming, and good manners for subway travel. Together, they show that etiquette is much more than fussy rules for behavior. In fact the idiom of manners, packaged in conduct literature, reveals much about gender and class difference, notions of national identity, the dynamics of subversion and conformity, and more. This richly detailed work reveals how manners give meaning to everyday life and extraordinary occasions, and how they can illuminate larger social and cultural transformations.

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"With Manners and Mischief, as with their previous work, Bardsley and Miller demonstrate what commitment to serious fun can look like." -- Christine R. Yano Monumenta Nipponica "Manners and Mischief disdains frivolity and stands firm as an academic text for students serious about extending their anthropological knowledge of Japan." -- Kris Kosaka Japan Times

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List of Illustrations	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Manners and Mischief: Introduction	p. 1
Genji Guides, or Minding Murasaki	p. 29
Box-Lunch Etiquette: Conduct Guides and Kabuki Onnagata	p. 48
The Perfect Woman: Geisha, Etiquette, and the World of Japanese Traditional Arts	p. 67
Mortification, Mockery, and Dissembling: Western Adventures in Japanese Etiquette	p. 80
A Dinner Party Is Not a Revolution: Space, Gender, and Hierarchy in Meiji Japan	p. 95
The Oyaji Gets a Makeover: Guides for Japanese Salarymen in the New Millennium	p. 114
The Dignified Woman Who Loves to Be ôLovableö	p. 136
Making and Marketing Mothers: Guides to Pregnancy in Modern Japan	p. 156
When Manners Are Not Enough: The Newspaper Advice Column and the ôEtiquetteö of Cultural Ideology in Contemporary Japan	p. 178
A Community of Manners: Advice Columns in Lesbian and Gay Magazines in Japan	p. 196
Behavior That Offends: Comics and Other Images of Incivility	p. 219
Bibliography	p. 251
Contributors	p. 269
Index	p. 273
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