The Modern Family in Japan: Its Rise and FallThis award-winning book brings together Chizuko Ueno's groundbreaking essays on the rise and fall of the modern family in Japan. Combining historical, sociological, anthropological, and journalistic methodologies, Ueno - who is arguably the foremost feminist theoretician in Japan - delineates in vivid detail how the family has been changing in form and function in the last hundred years. In each chapter, Ueno introduces the reader to a different facet of modern Japanese family life, ranging from children who fantasize about being orphans to the elderly who confront 'pre-senescence.' The central focus is on the housewife - her history, her ever-changing responsibilities, her ways of surviving mid-life crisis. This is an indispensable book for students and scholars seeking to understand modern Japan. |
Contents
Figures | 6 |
Exploring Family Identity | 25 |
Womens Transformation and the Family | 41 |
Formation of the Japanese Model of Modern Family | 65 |
Modernity for the Family | 89 |
Womens History and Modernity | 107 |
The Evolution of Umesaos Home Science | 125 |
Technological Innovation and Domestic Labor | 149 |
A Postwar History of the Mother | 161 |
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