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

• Pubblicazione: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (305 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.850952
• Soggetto topico: Families - Japan; Home - Japan; Households - Japan; Social change - Japan
• Soggetto geografico: Japan Social conditions 21st century
• Altri autori: AlexyAllison RonaldRichard
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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The changing face of homelessness in Tokyo in the modern era / Akihiko Nishizawa -- Coping with hikikomori : socially withdrawn youth and the Japanese family / Sachiko Horiguchi -- The door my wife closed : houses, families, and divorce in contemporary Japan / Allison Alexy -- Living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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 years. This book comprehensively addresses various aspects of family life and dwelling spaces, exploring how homes, household patterns and kin relations are reacting to contemporary social, economic and urban transformations, and the degree to which traditional patterns of both houses and households are
• Titolo autorizzato: Home and family in Japan
• ISBN: 1-136-88886-1; 0-203-84004-6; 1-299-46072-0; 1-136-88887-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910813941903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Japan anthropology workshop series.