Home and family in Japan : continuity and transformation / / edited by Richard Ronald and Allison Alexy.

• Superior document: Japan anthropology workshop series
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Ronald, Richard.; Alexy, Allison.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Japan anthropology workshop series.
• Physical Description: xviii, 278 p. :; ill.
• Other title: Introduction : continuity and change in Japanese homes and families /; Reassembling familial intimacy : civil, fringe, and popular youth visions of the Japanese home and family /; Reforming families in Japan : family policy in the era of structural reform /; The ideal, the deficient, and the illogical family : an initial typology of administrative household units /; "I did not know how to tell my parents, so I thought I would have to have an abortion" : experiences of unmarried mothers in Japan /; Masculinity and the family system : the ideology of the "salaryman" across three generations /; Working and waiting for an "appropriate person" : how single women support and resist family in Japan /; Home ownership, family change and generational differences /; Homes and houses, senses and spaces /; The changing face of homelessness in Tokyo in the modern era /; Coping with hikikomori : socially withdrawn youth and the Japanese family /; The door my wife closed : houses, families, and divorce in contemporary Japan /; Living apart together : anticipated home, family and social networks in old age /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9780415488679 (cloth : alk. paper); 0415488672 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780203840047 (electronic bk.)
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Richard Ronald and Allison Alexy.