Housewives of Japan An Ethnography of Real Lives and Consumerized Domesticity
by Goldstein-Gidoni, OfraFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2012-05-15
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary
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."
Author Biography
Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni is the chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Tel Aviv University, where she holds a joint position with the Department of East Asian Studies. She is the author of Packaged Japaneseness: Weddings, Business and Brides.
Table of Contents
Part I: A Collaborative Quest for Understanding 'Sengyo Shufu'Intertext I Entering the Field: Joining Mariko's Introspective Journey Intertext IIThe Postwar 'Professional Housewife' and the Japanese State Part II: The Women of Royal HeightsIntertext IIIOn 'Naturally' Becoming Housewives Intertext IV'Guarding the House': Men as Breadwinners, Women as Housewives Intertext VA New Housewife Is Born? Discourses of Class and Change in Royal Heights Part III: Housewives as Women in Post-Bubble JapanIntertext VIThe New Happy Housewife of Post-Bubble Japan Intertext VIIWrapping up: Housewives as the 'Winners'?Intertext VIII
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