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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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A Collaborative Quest for Understanding “Sengyō Shufu”
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The Women of Royal Heights
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Housewives as Women in Postbubble Japan
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Afterword
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Back Matter
About this book
Reviews
"A fascinating book about what it means and feels like to be a housewife in 2000s Japan . . . This is an imminently readable book that engages Japanese history, gender theory, and media studies to describe the options facing housewives in the contemporary moment. As omnipresent as housewives remain, this book shows us how varied and reflective they can be about their status, responsibilities, and degrees of satisfaction." - American Ethnologist
"An innovative attempt to trace the history and lived experience of Japanese "professional housewives." From popular media portrayals to 'housewife debates' and government propaganda tying women to domesticity even in the 2000s, Goldstein-Gidoni demonstrates the strength of the forces that propagate the housewife paradigm even as she reveals women's myriad responses to this lifestyle in the post-Bubble era. " - Glenda S. Roberts, Professor and Director of International Studies, Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University, Japan
"Goldstein-Gidoni gives voice to the lives and work of 'professional' housewives and to the vicissitudes of that especially salient category and status of Japanese women. Her work is a new and welcome addition to a long genealogy of the literature on Japanese housewives, and is the first, to my knowledge, to combine information about 'the professional housewife' with a reflexive interrogation of the process of ethnographic fieldwork. This book will greatly augment and updatethe body of scholarship on Japanese housewives and state formation from the perspective of domesticity." - Jennifer Robertson, Professor of Anthropology and the History of Art, University of Michigan, USA
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Housewives of Japan
Book Subtitle: An Ethnography of Real Lives and Consumerized Domesticity
Authors: Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137079626
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-34031-2Published: 17 May 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-137-52390-7Published: 06 July 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-07962-6Published: 04 June 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 273
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Gender Studies, Social Anthropology