Housewives of Japan: an ethnography of real lives and consumerized domesticity

Women in postwar Japan have never felt completely free from the traditional concept of the housewife. 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 and their real lives. With a novel approach to the use of the Internet and email in the production of ethnographic knowledge, this book gives voice to the lives and thoughts of "professional housewives." INDICE: PART I: A COLLABORATIVE QUEST FOR UNDERSTANDING 'SENGYŌ SHUFU'.Intertext I .Entering the Field: Joining Mariko's Introspective Journey .Intertext II.The Postwar 'Professional Housewife' and the Japanese State .PART II: THE WOMEN OF ROYAL HEIGHTS.Intertext III.On 'Naturally' Becoming Housewives .Intertext IV.'Guarding the House': Men as Breadwinners, Women as Housewives .Intertext V.A New Housewife Is Born? Discourses of Class and Change in Royal Heights .PART III: HOUSEWIVES AS WOMEN IN POST-BUBBLE JAPAN.Intertext VI.The New Happy Housewife of Post-Bubble Japan .Intertext VII.Wrapping up: Housewives as the 'Winners'?.Intertext VIII

• ISBN: 978-0-230-34031-2
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 300
• Fecha Publicación: 08/06/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido