The Modern Family in Japan: Its Rise and Fall

The Modern Family in Japan: Its Rise and Fall
ISBN-10
187684356X
ISBN-13
9781876843564
Category
Families
Pages
312
Language
English
Published
2009
Publisher
Trans Pacific Press
Author
Chizuko Ueno

Description

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.

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