Housewives of Japan : an ethnography of real lives and consumerized domesticity /
Goldstein-Gidoni, Ofra.
New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan,
2012.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-261) and index.
Entering the field: joining Mariko's introspective journey -- The postwar "professional housewife" and the Japanese state -- On "naturally" becoming housewives -- "Guarding the house": men as breadwinners, women as housewives -- A new housewife is born? Discourses of class and change in Royal Heights -- The new happy housewife of postbubble Japan -- Wrapping up: housewives as the "winners?"
Women
Housewives