The changing Japanese family
By: edited by Marcus Rebick and Ayumi Takenaka.
Contributors: Rebick, Marcus; Takenaka, Ayumi.
Series: Routledge contemporary Japan series ;; 8
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Family -- Japan; Households -- Japan; Family demography -- Japan; Family policy -- Japan; Sex role -- Japan; Social change -- Japan; Japan -- Social conditions -- 21st century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The changing Japanese family / Marcus Rebick and Ayumi Takenaka; title: Demographics of the Japanese family : entering uncharted territory / Naohiro Ogawa, Robert D. Retherford, and Rikiya Matsukura; title: Japanese youth's attitudes towards marriage and child-rearing / Nobuko Nagase; title: Strong in tradition and yet innovative : the puzzles of the Italian family / Francesca Bettio; title: Changes in the workplace and their impact on the family / Marcus Rebick; title: The emergence of "nurturing fathers" : discourses and practices of fatherhood in contemporary Japan / Ayami Nakatani; title: Changing language, gender, and family relations in Japan / Tessa Carroll; title: Mother-rearing : the social world of mothers in a Japanese suburb / Ayumi Sasagawa; title: Policing the Japanese family : child abuse, domestic violence, and the changing role of the state / Roger Goodman; title: Changing families and policy responses to an ageing Japanese society / Misa Izuhara; title: Different paths to welfare : family transformations, the production of welfare, and future prospects for social care in Italy and Japan / Rossana Trifiletti.