Configurations of family in contemporary Japan / edited by Tomoko Aoyama, Laura Dales and Romit Dasgupta
Configurations of family in contemporary Japan /
edited by Tomoko Aoyama, Laura Dales and Romit Dasgupta
- XVI, 179 p. : il. ; 24 cm
- The Nissan Institute / Routledge Japanese studies series .
Bibliografía: p. 158-173. -- Index
Re-imagining the 'post-bubble' family in Tokyo Sonata and Hush! / Suitably single?: representations of singlehood in contemporary Japan / Accommodating Japan's ageing sexual minorities: the 'family of friends' concept in LGBTI seniors' residential care / The girl-grandmother relation in Japanese children's literature / Girls, old women and fairytale families in the Old Woman's Skin and Howl's Moving Castle / From model to deviant: conflicting representations of parenthood in transnational families in Japan and Brazil / The role of newspapers in constructing public representations of 'monster parents' / Making 'traditional' families in transitional settings: Japanese women in Balinese-Japanese marriages / Transnational Japanese women and family space in Western Australia / Reconciling migration and filial piety: accounts of Japanese lifestyle migrants in Australia / Epilogue: the family in twenty-first-century Japan: between nation and transnation / Romit Dasgupta -- Laura Dales -- Leonie Stickland -- Tomoko Aoyama -- Lucy Fraser -- Tomoko Nakamatsu -- Kayako Hashimoto -- Leng Leng Thang and Mika Toyota -- Sachiko Sone and Leng Leng Thang -- Jared Denman -- Vera Mackie
The middle-class nuclear family model has long dominated discourses on family in Japan. Yet there have always been multiple configurations of family and kinship, which, in the context of significant socio-economic and demographic shifts since the 1990s, have become increasingly visible in public discourse. This book explores the meanings and practices of "family" in Japan, and brings together research by scholars of literature, gender studies, media and cultural studies, sociology and anthropology. While the primary focus is the "Japanese" family, it also examines the experience and practice of family beyond the borders of Japan, in such settings as Brazil, Australia, and Bali. The chapters explore key issues such as ageing, single households, non-heterosexual living arrangements and parenting. Moreover, many of the issues addressed, such as the growing diversity of family, the increase in single-person households, and the implications of an ageing society, are applicable to other mature, late-industrial societies. Employing both multi- and inter-disciplinary approaches, this book combines textual analysis of contemporary television, film, literature, manga, anime and other media with empirical and ethnographic studies of families in Japan and in transnational spaces. As such, it will be of great interest to students and scholars working across a number of fields including Japanese culture and society, sociology of family, gender studies, film and media studies, literature and cultural studies, and gerontology
9780415717656 0415717655
Familia--Japón
Demografía--Japón
Viviendas--Japón
Cambio social--Japón
Japón--Situación social--2000-....
Bibliografía: p. 158-173. -- Index
Re-imagining the 'post-bubble' family in Tokyo Sonata and Hush! / Suitably single?: representations of singlehood in contemporary Japan / Accommodating Japan's ageing sexual minorities: the 'family of friends' concept in LGBTI seniors' residential care / The girl-grandmother relation in Japanese children's literature / Girls, old women and fairytale families in the Old Woman's Skin and Howl's Moving Castle / From model to deviant: conflicting representations of parenthood in transnational families in Japan and Brazil / The role of newspapers in constructing public representations of 'monster parents' / Making 'traditional' families in transitional settings: Japanese women in Balinese-Japanese marriages / Transnational Japanese women and family space in Western Australia / Reconciling migration and filial piety: accounts of Japanese lifestyle migrants in Australia / Epilogue: the family in twenty-first-century Japan: between nation and transnation / Romit Dasgupta -- Laura Dales -- Leonie Stickland -- Tomoko Aoyama -- Lucy Fraser -- Tomoko Nakamatsu -- Kayako Hashimoto -- Leng Leng Thang and Mika Toyota -- Sachiko Sone and Leng Leng Thang -- Jared Denman -- Vera Mackie
The middle-class nuclear family model has long dominated discourses on family in Japan. Yet there have always been multiple configurations of family and kinship, which, in the context of significant socio-economic and demographic shifts since the 1990s, have become increasingly visible in public discourse. This book explores the meanings and practices of "family" in Japan, and brings together research by scholars of literature, gender studies, media and cultural studies, sociology and anthropology. While the primary focus is the "Japanese" family, it also examines the experience and practice of family beyond the borders of Japan, in such settings as Brazil, Australia, and Bali. The chapters explore key issues such as ageing, single households, non-heterosexual living arrangements and parenting. Moreover, many of the issues addressed, such as the growing diversity of family, the increase in single-person households, and the implications of an ageing society, are applicable to other mature, late-industrial societies. Employing both multi- and inter-disciplinary approaches, this book combines textual analysis of contemporary television, film, literature, manga, anime and other media with empirical and ethnographic studies of families in Japan and in transnational spaces. As such, it will be of great interest to students and scholars working across a number of fields including Japanese culture and society, sociology of family, gender studies, film and media studies, literature and cultural studies, and gerontology
9780415717656 0415717655
Familia--Japón
Demografía--Japón
Viviendas--Japón
Cambio social--Japón
Japón--Situación social--2000-....