خانه‌دارهای ژاپن: قوم‌نگاری زندگی‌های واقعی و زندگی خانگی مصرفی

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 the Internet and email in the production of ethnographic knowledge, this book gives voice to the lives and thoughts of "professional housewives." Housewives of Japan gives voice to the lives and thoughts of 'professional housewives', a salient category of Japanese women. 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 by a variety of state agents, including the market and the media, and the 'real' lives of these women. Goldstein-Gidoni offers a novel approach to the use of the Internet and especially e-correspondence in the production of ethnographic knowledge. The central position she gives to the life and voice of Mariko, a coauthor, though not a cowriter, challenges ideas of hierarchies and authority in the production of such knowledge