Home and family in Japan : continuity and transformation

Home and family in Japan : continuity and transformation / edited by Richard Ronald and Allison Alexy.

"In the Japanese language the word 'ie' denotes both the materiality of homes and family relations within. The traditional family and family house -- often portrayed in ideal terms as key foundations of Japanese culture and society -- have been subject to significant changes in recent...

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Other Authors: Ronald, Richard (Editor), Alexy, Allison (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2011.
Series:Japan anthropology workshop series.
Subjects:
2000-2099
Families > Japan.
Home > Japan.
Households > Japan.
Social change > Japan.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Alternative Family.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Reference.
Families
Home
Households
Social change
Social conditions
Japan > Social conditions > 21st century.
Japan
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : continuity and change in Japanese homes and families / Richard Ronald and Allison Alexy
  • Reassembling familial intimacy : civil, fringe, and popular youth visions of the Japanese home and family / Bruce White
  • Reforming families in Japan : family policy in the era of structural reform / Hiroko Takeda
  • The ideal, the deficient, and the illogical family : an initial typology of administrative household units / Karl Jakob Krogness
  • "I did not know how to tell my parents, so I thought I would have to have an abortion" : experiences of unmarried mothers in Japan / Ekaterina Hertog
  • Masculinity and the family system : the ideology of the "salaryman" across three generations / Tomoko Hidaka
  • Working and waiting for an "appropriate person" : how single women support and resist family in Japan / Lynne Y. Nakano
  • Home ownership, family change and generational differences / Yosuke Hirayama
  • Homes and houses, senses and spaces / Richard Ronald
  • The changing face of homelessness in Tokyo in the modern era / Akihiko Nishizawa
  • Coping with hikikomori : socially withdrawn youth and the Japanese family / Sachiko Horiguchi
  • The door my wife closed : houses, families, and divorce in contemporary Japan / Allison Alexy
  • Living apart together : anticipated home, family and social networks in old age / Anemone Platz.

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