Inside a Japanese Sharehouse : Dreams and Realities PDF
by Caitlin (Skidmore College, USA) Meagher
Part of the Japan Anthropology Workshop Series series
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.
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- Pages:158 pages, 3 Line drawings, black and white; 9 Halftones, black and white; 12 Illustrations, black a
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:29/12/2020
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- ISBN:9781000283136
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:158 pages, 3 Line drawings, black and white; 9 Halftones, black and white; 12 Illustrations, black a
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:29/12/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9781000283136
