Home and family in Japan continuity and transformation / edited by Richard Ronald and Allison Alexy.
| Other author | Ronald, Richard. |
| Other author | Alexy, Allison. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, |
| Description | xviii, 278 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Japan anthropology workshop series |
| 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The changing face of homelessness in Tokyo in the modern era / Akihiko Nishizawa -- Coping with hikikomori : socially withdrawn youth and the Japanese family / Sachiko Horiguchi -- The door my wife closed : houses, families, and divorce in contemporary Japan / Allison Alexy -- Living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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2010019497 |
| ISBN | 9780415488679 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0415488672 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780203840047 (ebook) |
| ISBN | 0203840046 (ebook) |
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