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目次

1. 'Good wives, wise mothers': parenting and family life in culturalcontext; 2. Locating the research in space and time; 3. What is a wisemother?; 4. Hansei: the process of self-reflection; 5. Memories of childhood;6. Husbands: crucial partners or peripheral strangers?; 7. Shitsuke: the artof childrearing; 8. Maternal involvement in children's schooling; 9.Balancing work and family life; 10. Women and family life: ideology,experience and agency.