Author : O. Goldstein-Gidoni
Publisher : Springer
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 21,92 MB
Release : 2012-06-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1137079622
Drawing on a unique ethnographic inquiry, Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni explores the complexities of the relationship between socially and culturally constructed roles bestowed on Japanese women by a variety of state agents, including the market and the media, and the 'real' lives of these women.
Author : Anne E. Imamura
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 30,91 MB
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0824843851
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Author : Suzanne Hall Vogel
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 33,1 MB
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1442221720
These gripping biographies poignantly illustrate the strengths and the vulnerabilities of professional housewives and of families facing social change and economic uncertainty in contemporary Japan.
Author : Robin M. LeBlanc
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 34,58 MB
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520920619
While the typical Japanese male politician glides through his district in air-conditioned taxis, the typical female voter trundles along the side streets on a simple bicycle. In this first ethnographic study of the politics of the average female citizen in Japan, Robin LeBlanc argues that this taxi-bicycle contrast reaches deeply into Japanese society. To study the relationship between gender and liberal democratic citizenship, LeBlanc conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork in suburban Tokyo among housewives, volunteer groups, consumer cooperative movements, and the members of a committee to reelect a female Diet member who used her own housewife status as the key to victory. LeBlanc argues that contrary to popular perception, Japanese housewives are ultimately not without a political world. Full of new and stimulating material, engagingly written, and deft in its weaving of theoretical perspectives with field research, this study will not only open up new dialogues between gender theory and broader social science concerns but also provide a superb introduction to politics in Japan as a whole.
Author : Barbara Sato
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,74 MB
Release : 2003-04-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780822330448
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Author : Ruth Martin
Publisher : Global Oriental
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 18,44 MB
Release : 2007-11-08
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9004213333
Based on research over a six-year period into three age groups of women, this important new study offers in depth analysis for the first time of the experience of expatriate Japanese wives living temporarily in the United Kingdom. It focuses on the roles of the ‘housewife’ in the context of the changing status of women in contemporary Japan.
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Page : 380 pages
File Size : 42,72 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Japan
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Author : Nancy Singleton Hachisu
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 26,66 MB
Release : 2012-09-04
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 1449418295
Presents a collection of Japanese recipes; discusses the ingredients, techniques, and equipment required for home cooking; and relates the author's experiences living on a farm in Japan for the past twenty-three years.
Author : Chizuko Ueno
Publisher : Trans Pacific Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,44 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9781876843564
This award-winning book brings together Chizuko Ueno's groundbreaking essays on the rise and fall of the modern family in Japan. Combining historical, sociological, anthropological, and journalistic methodologies, Ueno - who is arguably the foremost feminist theoretician in Japan - delineates in vivid detail how the family has been changing in form and function in the last hundred years. In each chapter, Ueno introduces the reader to a different facet of modern Japanese family life, ranging from children who fantasize about being orphans to the elderly who confront 'pre-senescence.' The central focus is on the housewife - her history, her ever-changing responsibilities, her ways of surviving mid-life crisis. This is an indispensable book for students and scholars seeking to understand modern Japan.
Author : Katarzyna J. Cwiertka
Publisher : Consumption and Sustainability in Asia
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 23,13 MB
Release : 2018-02-14
Category : Consumer behavior
ISBN : 9789462980631
The bursting of the economic bubble in the 1990s shook the very foundation of the post-war economic 'miracle' and marked the beginning of a gradual shift in the environmental consciousness of the Japanese. Yet, it by no means removed consumption from the pivotal position it occupied within Japanese society. Consuming Life in Post-Bubble Japan argues that consumption in Japan today is no longer simply a component of everyday economic activities, but rather a reflection of a society guided by the 'logic of late capitalism'. The volume pins down the contradictory nature of the setting in which consuming occurs in Japan today: the veneration of material comfort and convenience on the one hand, and the new rhetoric of recycling and energy conservation on the other. Theoretical insights developed as part of an art-historical enquiry, such as notions of socially engaged art and its critique, offer a new paradigm for investigating this dilemma. By combining case studies analysing the production and consumption of contemporary art with ethnographic material related to ordinary commodities and shopping, this volume provides a novel, transdisciplinary approach to exploring how a 'society of consumers' operates in post-bubble Japan and how contemporary life is a 'consuming project'.
