| Description |
xviii, 278 p. : ill. |
| Series |
Japan anthropology workshop series |
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Japan anthropology workshop series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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The changing face of homelessness in Tokyo in the modern era / Akihiko Nishizawa -- Coping with hikikomori : socially withdrawn youth and the Japanese family / Sachiko Horiguchi -- The door my wife closed : houses, families, and divorce in contemporary Japan / Allison Alexy -- Living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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Families -- Japan.
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Home -- Japan.
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Households -- Japan.
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Social change -- Japan.
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Japan -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Ronald, Richard.
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Alexy, Allison.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9780415488679 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0415488672 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780203840047 (electronic bk.) |
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