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

Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni
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E-Book
Publication:
New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
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Summary:
"Housewives of Japan gives voice to the lives and thoughts of 'professional housewives', a salient category of Japanese women. 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 by a variety of state agents, including the market and the media, and the 'real' lives of these women. Goldstein-Gidoni offers a novel approach to the use of the Internet and especially e-correspondence in the production of ethnographic knowledge. The central position she gives to the life and voice of Mariko, a coauthor, though not a cowriter, challenges ideas of hierarchies and authority in the production of such knowledge"--Provided by publisher.
Table of Contents:
  • Entering the field: joining Mariko's introspective journey
  • The postwar "professional housewife" and the Japanese state
  • On "naturally" becoming housewives
  • "Guarding the house": men as breadwinners, women as housewives
  • A new housewife is born? Discourses of class and change in Royal Heights
  • The new happy housewife of postbubble Japan
  • Wrapping up: housewives as the "winners?"
Author/Creator:
Goldstein-Gidoni, Ofra
Languages:
English
Language Notes:
Item content: English
Main Work:
Housewives of Japan: an ethnography of real lives and consumerized domesticity [by Goldstein-Gidoni, O.]
Other Related Resources:
Print version: Housewives of Japan [by Goldstein-Gidoni, O.] (New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 — ISBN 9780230340312; LCCN 2011279844)
Subjects:
Women — Japan — Social conditions
Housewives — Japan
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-261) and index.
Description based on: Print version record.
Physical Description:
1 online resource.
Call Numbers:
HQ759 .G65 2012eb
ISBNs:
9781137079626 (electronic bk.)
1137079622 (electronic bk.)
9780230340312 (cloth) [Invalid]
0230340318 (cloth) [Invalid]
Other Standard Numbers:
[Unknown Type]: 9786613722119
OCLC Numbers:
796997096
Other Control Numbers:
EBC956604 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp9007564