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Inside a Japanese Sharehouse : Dreams and Realities by Caitlin Meagher is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Inside a Japanese Sharehouse : Dreams and Realities about?
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.
Who reads Inside a Japanese Sharehouse : Dreams and Realities?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Caitlin Meagher
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781000283136
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, Social Science, Management