Home and family in Japan : continuity and transformation - Ronald, Richard; Alexy, Allison (Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2011)
Introduction : continuity and change in Japanese homes and families / Richard Ronald and Allison Alexy -- Reassembling familial intimacy : civil, fringe, and popular youth visions of the Japanese home and family / Bruce White -- Reforming families in Japan : family policy in the era of structural reform / Hiroko Takeda -- The ideal, the deficient, and the illogical family : an initial typology of administrative household units / Karl Jakob Krogness -- "I did not know how to tell my parents, so I thought I would have to have an abortion" : experiences of unmarried mothers in Japan / Ekaterina Hertog -- Masculinity and the family system : the ideology of the "salaryman" across three generations / Tomoko Hidaka -- Working and waiting for an "appropriate person" : how single women support and resist family in Japan / Lynne Y. Nakano -- Home ownership, family change and generational differences / Yosuke Hirayama -- Homes and houses, senses and spaces / Richard Ronald -- The changing face of homelessness in Tokyo in the modern era / Akihiko Nishizawa -- Coping with hikikomori : socially withdrawn youth and the Japanese family / Sachiko Horiguchi -- The door my wife closed : houses, families, and divorce in contemporary Japan / Allison Alexy -- Living apart together : anticipated home, family and social networks in old age / Anemone Platz.
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Keywords: Families -- Japan; Home -- Japan; Households -- Japan; Social change -- Japan; Japan -- Social conditions -- 21st century; Electronic books