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Housewives of Japan: An Ethnography of Real Lives and Consumerized Domesticity
Housewives of Japan An Ethnography of Real Lives and Consumerized Domesticity Author:Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni Women in postwar Japan have never felt completely free from the traditional concept of the housewife. Drawing on a unique ethnographic inquiry, Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni explores the complexities of the relationship between socially and culturally constructed roles bestowed on Japanese women and their real lives. With a novel approach to the use of ... more »the Internet and email in the production of ethnographic knowledge, this book gives voice to the lives and thoughts of "professional housewives."« less