Overview
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.
- | Author: Chizuko Ueno
- | Publisher: Trans Pacific Press
- | Publication Date: Apr 01, 2009
- | Number of Pages: 283 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 1876843624
- | ISBN-13: 9781876843625
