Inside a Japanese Sharehouse: Dreams and Realities by Caitlin Meagher (English)

Description: Inside a Japanese Sharehouse by Caitlin Meagher 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 that are a deliberate alternative to life in the family home and are considered an experimental space for the construction of new social identities. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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. Author Biography Caitlin Meagher is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Skidmore College, USA. Table of Contents Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Aspiration Chapter 3: International Exchange Chapter 4: Public and Private Chapter 5: Nuisance Chapter 6: Waste Chapter 7: Village Society Chapter 8: Conclusion References Details ISBN0367561638 Author Caitlin Meagher Short Title Inside a Japanese Sharehouse Language English Year 2020 ISBN-10 0367561638 ISBN-13 9780367561635 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2020-12-28 Imprint Routledge Subtitle Dreams and Realities Pages 148 DEWEY 363.590952 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Series Japan Anthropology Workshop Series UK Release Date 2020-12-28 Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2020-12-28 NZ Release Date 2020-12-28 Illustrations 3 Line drawings, black and white; 9 Halftones, black and white; 12 Illustrations, black and white Alternative 9780367561666 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:135319953;

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