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Family Change And The Life Course In Japan, Susan Long Dec 1986

Family Change And The Life Course In Japan, Susan Long

Susan O Long

This book provides a valuable introduction to historical and sociological studies of family change in Japan. The author discusses the organization and assumptions of the academic disciplines, introduces resources for cross-cultural research on family change, and summarizes research results in areas such as infanticide, preindustrial mobility, family size and structure, family relations, mate selection, and the elderly. Summaries of Japanese studies and translated tables and graphs are integrated with materials from relevant English language publications from the perspective of life course theory. The book points out difficulties in cross-cultural research but stresses the vital contributions of such insights for the …

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Desire And Discourse In Foucault: The Sign Of The Fig Leaf In Michelangelo’S David, Kenneth Colburn Dec 1986

Desire And Discourse In Foucault: The Sign Of The Fig Leaf In Michelangelo’S David, Kenneth Colburn

Kenneth D. Colburn

The article focuses on philosopher Michel Foucault's views for assessing the meaning and significance of the fig leaf placed on sculptor Michelangelo's sculpture, David, examines the motif of the fig leaf in the story of Adam and Eve as a prototype of Foucault's idea of sex as a category of knowledge and employs Foucault's distinction between ars erotica and sciens tia sexualis as the basis for a comparison of classical and modern attitudes towards sex. Foucault suggests that sexual repression and its counterpart, censorship, are complicated facts that must be apprehended dialectically in relation to other less obvious facts, and …

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