Configurations of family in contemporary Japan
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Bibliographic Information
Configurations of family in contemporary Japan
(The Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series)
Routledge, 2016, c2015
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [158]-173) and index
"First issued paperback 2016"--T.p. verso
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Introduction Part I: Family, Companionship 1. Re-imagining the "Post-Bubble" Family in Tokyo Sonata and Hush!2. Suitably Single?: Representations of Singlehood in Contemporary Japan 3. Accommodating Japan's Ageing Sexual Minorities: The "Family of Friends" Concept in LGBTI Seniors' Residential Care Part II: Old Age, Women, Storytelling 4. The Girl-Grandmother Relation in Japanese Children's Literature 5. Girls, Old Women, and Fairytale Families in 'The Old Woman's Skin' and Howl's Moving Castle Part III: Contemporary Parenting 6. From Model to Deviant: Conflicting Representations of Parenthood in the Transnational Families in Japan and Brazil 7. The Role of Newspapers in Constructing Public Representations of "Monster Parents" Part IV: Transnational Families 8. Making "Traditional" Families in Transnational Settings: Japanese Women in Balinese-Japanese Marriages 9. Transnational Japanese Women and Family Space in Western Australia 10. Reconciling Migration and Filial Piety: Accounts of Japanese Lifestyle Migrants in Australia 11. Epilogue: The Family in Twenty-First Century Japan: Between Nation and Transnation
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