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Inside a Japanese Sharehouse - Dreams and Realities (Paperback)
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Inside a Japanese Sharehouse - Dreams and Realities (Paperback)
Series: Japan Anthropology Workshop Series
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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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