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Week VIII:
May 20th and 22nd
Japanese Family Roles and the Consumer-based Family
Wednesday:
Family Roles in Japan--husband, wife, mother, daughter-in-law
Friday:Family as ie and uchi, nation, locality, and omiai kekkon
Discussion:
- What's the difference between role-based marriage and companionate marriage, and how would you characterize it in Japan?
- Why is the state so intimately involved in "constructing" the Japanese family and Japanese gender relationships?
- How has masculinity and femininity changed as the Japanese economy has changed?
- Do you get the impression that cultural encounters between Asian brides in Korea is similar to those in Japan?
Reading: (summary)
- Faier, Part II
- Yonson Ahn, "Gender under reconstruction: Hegotiating gender identities of marriage migrant women from Asia in South Korea." In Anthony D'Coasta, ed. After Development Dynamicsi (Oxford) pp 242-62 [ebook available in UW library]
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