Merry White

Biographic Data

ID3870127
NAMEMerry White
GIVEN NAMESMerry
FAMILY NAMEWhite
SIGNATUREWHITE M
AFFILIATIONSBoston University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS36
TOTAL CITATIONS27
AUTHOR COUNT36
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1985
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX3

  • Kanpai: The History of Sake

    Open AccessMerry WhiteARTICLEFood and Foodways2026

  • Ways of Eating

    Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft, Merry I White et al.BOOKWays of Eating2023

  • Ways of Eating

    Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft, Merry WhiteBOOKWays of Eating2023

  • Perfectly Japanese

    Merry WhiteBOOKPerfectly Japanese: Making…2019

    Are Japanese families in crisis? In this dynamic and substantive study, Merry Isaacs White looks back at two key moments of "family making" in the past hundred years—the Meiji era and postwar period—to see how models for the Japanese family have been constructed. The models had little to do with families of their eras and even less to do with families today, she finds. She vividly portrays the everyday reality of a range of families: young marrie…

  • Coffee Life in Japan

    Merry WhiteBOOKCoffee Life in Japan2019

    This fascinating book—part ethnography, part memoir—traces Japan’s vibrant café society over one hundred and thirty years. Merry White traces Japan’s coffee craze from the turn of the twentieth century, when Japan helped to launch the Brazilian coffee industry, to the present day, as uniquely Japanese ways with coffee surface in Europe and America. White’s book takes up themes as diverse as gender, privacy, perfectionism, and urbanism. She shows …

  • Consuming Life in Post-Bubble Japan

    Open AccessMerry I White, Merry WhiteARTICLESocial Science Japan Journal2019

    Consuming—in all its forms—is a central experience of human life. The consumer in capitalist societies is both exploiter and exploited, and an object of desire, to be wooed and disdained, measured and manipulated. Consumption is historically and culturally defined, and the economics of consumption is understood in deep context. In this volume, Consuming Life in Post-Bubble Japan, the editors, Katarzyna Cwiertka and Ewa Machotka, have assembled il…

  • Assumptions and Distortions

    Merry WhiteARTICLEPacific Affairs2019

    Ronald Dore's work on education in Japan centred on themes of selection and equality. In his work on Tokugawa education, Dore presaged some of the emphasis he gave in his later work on quality and social and moral content in modern education. The argument of The Diploma Disease concerned the "late development effect" as a tool in understanding the emphasis on qualification and selection that led to Japan's postwar examination hypertrophy, and in …

  • Change and diversity in the Japanese family

    Merry WhiteCHAPTERRoutledege handbook of Japanese…2015

  • Ramen at Home and on the Road

    Merry WhiteARTICLEJapan Forum2015References: 1

    George Solt, The Untold Story of Ramen: How Political Crisis in Japan Spawned a Global Food Craze, University of California Press, Berkeley, 2013, 240 pp.Frederick Errington, Tatsuro Fujikura and D

  • Modern Japanese Cuisine

    Merry I White, Merry WhiteARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies2008

    Reviewed by: Modern Japanese Cuisine: Food, Power and National Identity Merry I. White (bio) Modern Japanese Cuisine: Food, Power and National Identity. By Katarzyna J. Cwiertka. Reaktion Books, London, 2006. 240 pages. $40.00. Culinary history has opened up new perspectives in the study of culture, technology, economics, and politics as well as other fields. Katarzyna Cwiertka’s recent work is a lucid example of such a treatment of history throu…

  • B ritish F ood

    Merry WhiteARTICLEFood Culture & Society2008

  • The Changing Japanese Family (review)

    Merry I White, Merry WhiteARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies2007

    Reviewed by: The Changing Japanese Family Merry I. White (bio) The Changing Japanese Family. Edited by Marcus Rebick and Ayumi Takenaka. Routledge, London, 2006. xv, 217 pages. £65.00. I have to admit to setting this volume aside at first sight—another edited volume on the Japanese family? How much more needs to be said about [End Page 435] challenges and crises, about the problems of women, children, and the elderly? But this rare collection of …

  • Divorce in Japan

    Open AccessMerry I White, Merry WhiteARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…2006References: 1

  • Modern Girls, Shining Stars, the Skies of Tokyo

    Open AccessMerry I White, Merry WhiteARTICLEWomen s Studies International Forum2000

  • Marketing the Menacing Fetus in Japan

    Merry I White, Merry White et al.ARTICLEJournal for the Scientific Study…1998

  • Unmasking Japan Today

    Merry I White, Merry White et al.ARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies1997

    The Process of Japanese Modernization The Japanese Family-Change and Continuity Changes in the Japanese Family System Popular Culture/Lifestyles of the Japanese Family Emerging Family Problems Education and Youth The Japanese Educational System Japanese Youth Today Women and Labor Force Participation The Changing Status of Women Japanese Women in the Work Force The Graying of Japan Aging as a Socio-Cultural Process The Economics of Aging The Impa…

  • Japanese Women

    Merry I White, Merry White et al.ARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica1996Cited by: 13

  • The Material Child

    Okuno Takuji, Merry WhiteARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies1995

  • The Material Child

    William W Kelly, Merry WhiteARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1994

  • Social Mobility in Contemporary Japan

    Merry I White, Merry White et al.ARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies1994

  • The Learning Gap

    Merry I White, Merry White et al.REVIEWContemporary Sociology A Journal…1993Cited by: 2

  • The Japanese Overseas

    David W Plath, Merry WhiteARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica1993

  • "Japan's "International Youth

    Merry I White, Merry White et al.ARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies1992

    Who are the Kikokushijo? the cultural problems the educational problems case study of a school with Kikokushijo Kikokushijo in comparative perspective Kikokushijo in historical perspective the emergence of a new class of Japanese schoolchildren

  • Japanese Schooling

    Merry I White, Merry White et al.ARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica1990Cited by: 4

  • Preschool in Three Cultures

    Merry I White, Merry WhiteARTICLEAmerican Journal of Sociology1990