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- Inside a Japanese Sharehouse (häftad, eng)
Inside a Japanese Sharehouse (häftad, eng)
This book explores social change in Japan at the most intimate site of social interaction – the home – by providing a detailed...
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This book explores social change in Japan at the most intimate site of social interaction – the home – by providing a detailed ethnography of everyday life in a sharehouse. Sharehouses, which emerged in the 2007 ''sharehouse boom'', are a deliberate alternative to life in the family home and are considered an experimental space for the construction of new social identities.
Through a description of the micro-level, mundane, material interactions among residents within a mid-sized, mixed-sex sharehouse, the book considers what these interactions indicate about existing – and often conflicting – ideas about intimacy, privacy, gender, the individual, family, community, and the home.
In so doing it highlights how sharehouse residents, though a dramatic rejection of the twentieth-century domestic model, with its ideal of the family home as a partnership between a male wage-earner and a dedicated housewife, and its implied separation of ''family'' and ''outsiders'', are nevertheless uneasy about overturning existing gender roles and giving precedence to the individual over community, and are regarded as a foreign import.
Format | Häftad |
Omfång | 148 sidor |
Språk | Engelska |
Förlag | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Utgivningsdatum | 2022-08-01 |
ISBN | 9780367561666 |
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- Häftad, 148, Engelska, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2022-08-01, 9780367561666
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