Gambling With Virtue: Japanese Women and the Search for Self in a Changing Nation.

Honolulu, Hawaii : University of Hawai'i Press, 2001., 2001. As New. Photographic stiff paper wrappers ; [1st edition, 2nd printing] ; x, 277 pp. ; 24 cm. ; ISBN: 0824823885 ; LCCN: 00-55936 ; OCLC: 44425572 ; "...uses the stage as a metaphor to demonstrate how everyday life requires Japanese women to be skilled performers. She shows how they function on stage in their accepted roles while effecting small but significant changes backstage. Over the last thirty years, Japanese women have expanded their influence and extended this cultural process of multiple arenas to find compromises between the old virtues of personhood and new ideals for self. They conform, maneuver, and make choices within these multiple stages as they juggle various concerns and desires. By the 1990s their personal choices have made a difference, calling into question the very nature of these multiple arenas." ; AS NEW