{"product_id":"inside-a-japanese-sharehouse-caitlin-meagher-9780367561666","title":"Inside a Japanese Sharehouse: Dreams and Realities","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Caitlin Meagher\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0367561662\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780367561666\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 148\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.51lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.34d","brand":"Caitlin Meagher","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44072265154815,"sku":"9780367561666","price":52.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3330e136-2600-4ae4-93b9-ecd88f7e0681.jpg?v=1685440926","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/inside-a-japanese-sharehouse-caitlin-meagher-9780367561666","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}