ISBN:
9780415717656
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (198 p)
Series Statement:
Nissan Institute / Routledge Japanese Studies
Parallel Title:
Print version Configurations of Family in Contemporary Japan
DDC:
306.850952
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
The middle-class nuclear family model has long dominated discourses on family in Japan. Yet there have always been multiple configurations of family and kinship, which, in the context of significant socio-economic and demographic shifts since the 1990s, have become increasingly visible in public discourse. This book explores the meanings and practices of ""family"" in Japan, and brings together research by scholars of literature, gender studies, media and cultural studies, sociology and anthropology. While the primary focus is the ""Japanese"" family, it also examines the experience and practi
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Contributors; Series editors' preface; Note on Japanese names; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part 1 Family and companionship; 1 Re-imagining the 'post-bubble' family in Tokyo Sonata and Hush!; 2 Suitably single?: representations of singlehood in contemporary Japan; 3 Accommodating Japan's ageing sexual minorities: the 'family of friends' concept in LGBTI seniors' residential care; Part 2 Old age, women and storytelling; 4 The girl-grandmother relation in Japanese children's literature
Description / Table of Contents:
5 Girls, old women and fairytale families in The Old Woman's Skin and Howl's Moving CastlePart 3 Contemporary parenting; 6 From model to deviant: conflicting representations of parenthood in transnational families in Japan and Brazil; 7 The role of newspapers in constructing public representations of 'monster parents'; Part 4 Transnational families; 8 Making 'traditional' families in transnational settings: Japanese women in Balinese-Japanese marriages; 9 Transnational Japanese women and family space in Western Australia
Description / Table of Contents:
10 Reconciling migration and filial piety: accounts of Japanese lifestyle migrants in AustraliaEpilogue: the family in twenty-first-century Japan: between nation and transnation; References; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
Permalink
