Research Catalog

Title

Housewives of Japan : an ethnography of real lives and consumerized domesticity / Ofra Goldstein-Godoni.

Author

Goldstein-Gidoni, Ofra.

Publication

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

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Details

Description

xxv, 273 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

Housewives of Japangives voice to the lives and thoughts of 'professional housewives', a salient category of Japanese women. Drawing on a unique ethnographic inquiry, Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni explores the complexities of the relationship between socially and culturally constructed roles bestowed on Japanese women by a variety of state agents, including the market and the media, and the 'real' lives of these women. Goldstein-Gidoni offers a novel approach to the use of the Internet and especially e-correspondence in the production of ethnographic knowledge. The central position she gives to the life and voice of Mariko, a coauthor, though not a cowriter, challenges ideas of hierarchies and authority in the production of such knowledge.

Subject

• Women > Japan > Social conditions
• Housewives > Japan
• Housewives
• Women > Social conditions
• Hausfrau
• Soziale Situation
• Soziale Rolle
• Rollenerwartung
• Selbstbild
• Women > Japan
• Social role > Japan
• Ethnology > Methodology
• Women consumers > Japan
• Japan

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-261) and index.

Contents

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?"

ISBN

• 9780230340312
• 0230340318

LCCN

2011279844

OCLC

• ocn768167329
• 768167329
• SCSB-14697019

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library