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

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...

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Main Authors: Goldstein-Gidoni, Ofra
Published: Palgrave Macmillan,
Publisher Address: Basingstoke, Hampshire :
Publication Dates: 2015.
©2012
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Edition: First Palgrave Macmillan paperback edition.
Subjects:
Women > Japan > Social conditions
Housewives > Japan
Summary: 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?"
Item Description: Originally published: 2012.
Carrier Form: xxv, 273 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-261) and index.
ISBN: 9781137523907
1137523905
Index Number: HQ1762
CLC: D731.386.8
Call Number: D731.386.8/G624

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