3. The Past in the Present

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii
4. INTRODUCTION ix
5. PART I. CONTEXTS
6. 1. Peace and Democracy in Two Systems: External Policy and Internal Conflict 3
7. 2. Japan's Position in the World System 34
8. 3. The Past in the Present 64
9. PART II. POLITICAL ECONOMY
10. 4. Growth Versus Success: Japan's Economic Policy in Historical Perspective 99
11. 5. The Structure and Transformation of Conservative Rule 123
12. 6. Negotiating Social Contracts 145
13. 7. Dialectics of Economic Growth, National Power, and Distributive Struggles 167
14. PART III. MASS CULTURE AND METROPOLITAN SOCIETY
15. 8. Finding a Place in Metropolitan Japan: Ideologies, Institutions, and Everyday Life 189
16. 9. Formations of Mass Culture 239
17. 10. Consuming and Saving 259
18. 11. The Death of "Good Wife, Wise Mother"? 293
19. PART IV. DEMOCRATIC PROMISE AND PRACTICE
20. 12. Unplaced Persons and Movements for Place 325
21. 13. Altered States: The Body Politics of "Being-Woman" 347
22. 14. Contests for the Workplace 373
23. 15. Intellectuals and Politics 395
24. 16. The Dynamics of Political Opposition 424
25. Conclusion 449
26. GLOSSARY 465
27. CONTRIBUTORS 471
28. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 475
29. INDEX 481