Bicultural Marriage
Looking Beyond the Mask: When American Women Marry Japanese
Men
by Nancy Brown Diggs
State University of New York Press
Looking Beyond the Mask focuses on the personal stories of the growing number of American women who-despite vast cultural differences, and sometimes because of them-are married to Japanese men. Although the problems encountered in such marriages are similar to those found in any union, there are cultural implications that can exacerbate any of them. Potential areas of conflict are examined, such as in-laws, customs and manners, values, living conditions, religion, communication, sex and gender, and raising children. The book deals with meeting such challenges and attempting to look beyond the cultural masks to see the real people behind them.
Ex-Pat Life
Being a Broad in Japan: Everything a Western Woman Needs
to Survive and Thrive
by Caroline Pover
Being a Broad in Japan includes everything you need to make the most out of your life: case studies of Western women working in almost 50 different types of jobs; anecdotes from many of the 200 Western women interviewed; profiles of 23 women's organizations; essential Japanese words and phrases; and indispensable resource sections listing telephone numbers and Websites for English-speaking housing agencies, banks, doctors, dentists, gynaecologists, therapists, lawyers, maternity classes, day care centers, employment agencies, or unions graduate schools, and more. An essential book for any Western woman living in Japan.
Raising Multicultural/Multilingual Children
The Bilingual Family: A Handbook for Parents
by Edith Harding and Philip Riley
Cambridge University Press
This book provides parents with common sense advice and the information they need when making the decision of whether to raise their children to be bilingual. The authors are professional applied linguists who have successfully raised their children to be bilingual. They draw on their own experience and that of others to guide new parents in how to successfully raise bilingual children. The book is divided into three main parts. In the first, the authors help parents identify factors that will influence their decision to raise their children as bilinguals. The second part is made of case studies of bilingual families. And the third is a reference guide providing answers to some of the most frequently asked questions.
Growing Up with Two Languages: A Practical Guide
by Uta Cunningham-Andersson and Staffan Andersson Routledge
The lives of many families involve contact with more than one language and culture on a daily basis. This book is aimed at the many parents and professionals who feel uncertain about the best way to go about helping children to gain maximum benefit from the situation. Every family's situation is different, but there is a good deal that parents can do to make life with two languages easier for their children. The trials and rewards of life with two languages and cultures are discussed in detail, and followed by practical advice on how to support the child's linguistic development.
Third Culture Kids
by David C. Pollock, Ruth E. Van Reken
Widely acclaimed as the first and only book to fully examine the legacy of transition and change experienced by those who have grown up globally. Third Culture Kids speaks to the challenges and rewards of a multicultural childhood, the joy of discovery and the heartbreaking loss, its effects on maturing and personal identity and the difficulty of making the transition home.
Trying to Conceive
Taking Charge of Your Fertility: The Definitive Guide to
Natural Birth Control and Pregnancy Achievement
by Toni Weschler, MPH
Harper Perennial
This groundbreaking work is the next step in the women's health revolution, providing al the information women need to monitor their menstrual cycles-whether to achieve pregnancy, avoid pregnancy, or just get better control of their moods, and lives.
Childcare
The
Baby Book: Everything You Need to Know About Your Baby From Birth to Age Two
by William Sears, M.D., and Martha Sears, R.N.
Little, Brown
Dr. Bill and Martha Sears draw from their vast experience both as medical professionals and as parents to provide authoritative, comprehensive information on virtually every aspect of infant care. The Baby Book focuses on the essential needs of babies-eating, sleeping, development, health, and comfort-as it addresses the questions of greatest concern to today's parents. It is a rich and invaluable resource that will help you get the most out of parenting-for your child, and for your entire family.
Breastfeeding
The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding
by La Leche League International
A Plume Book
The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding is a total guide to infant and childcare written by the world's foremost authority on breastfeeding.
Mothering Your Nursing Toddler
by Norma Jane Bumgarner
La Leche League International
Many a modern mother has felt as though she has embarked on uncharted waters as she continues to breastfeed a child into toddlerhood. The child's need to nurse is clear-but mother has lots of questions. In Mothing Your Nursing Toddler, author Norma Jane Bumgarner puts the experience of nursing an older baby or child in perspective, within the context of the entire mother-child relationship. She sites biological, cultural, and historical evidence in support of extended breastfeeding and shares stories gleaned from thousands of families in which nursing and natural weaning have been the norm. Mothers who breastfeed their children past infancy recognize that breastfeeding is more than nutrition. It's a way of mothering. As little ones learn to walk, talk, and run-while continuing to nurse-mothers can rely on the wisdom in this book.
Breastfeeding: Biocultural Perspectives
edited by Patricia Stuart-Macadam and Katherine A. Dettwyler
Aldine De Gruyter
Breastfeeding is a biocultural phenomenon: not only is it a biological process, but it is a culturally determined behavior. As such, it has important implications for understanding the past, present, and future condition of our species. In general, scholars have emphasized either the biological or the cultural aspects of breastfeeding, but not both. As biological anthropologists the editors of this volume feel that an evolutionary approach combining both aspects is essential. One of the goals of their book is to incorporate data from diverse fields to present a more holistic view of breastfeeding, through the inclusion of research from a number of different disciplines. Including biological and social/cultural anthropology, nutrition, and medicine. The resulting book, presenting the complexity of the issues surrounding very basic decisions about infant nutrtion will fill a void in the existing parenting literature on breastfeeding.
The Administrator's Personal Picks
Memoirs of a Geisha
by Arthur S. Golden
In Memoirs of a Geisha, we enter a world where appearances are paramount; where a girl's virginity is auctioned to the highest bidder; where women are trained to beguile the most powerful men; and where love is scorned as illusion. Memoirs of a Geisha is a book of nuance and vivid metaphor, of memorable characters rendered with humor and pathos. And though the story is rich with detail and a vast knowledge of history, it is the transparent, seductive voice of Sayuri, as she tells her own story, that the reader remembers.
Ryoma : Life of a Renaissance Samurai
by Romulus Hillsborough
Mid-19th-century Japan was a caldron of political upheaval and intrigue, bloody inner-fighting among samurai, and the end of three centuries of shogunal rule. This most enthralling age in the annals of Japan brought forth some of the most fascinating men in that nation's history. These men modernized Japan, and laid the foundation for the militarism of WWII and the economic powerhouse of today. This close look into the hearts and minds of these two-sworded men provides a deep insight into the political, cultural and psychological roots of modern Japan.
Sakamoto Ryoma and the Meiji Restoration
by Marius B. Jansen
Jansen tells the story of the Restoration in the career and thought of Sakamoto Ryoma and, to a lesser extent, Nakaoka Shintaro, each an example of the new type of political leader: idealistic, individualistic, and patriotic.