Akiko Yoshida

Unmarried Women in Japan (eBook, ePUB)

The drift into singlehood

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book aims to answer the question of why many women remain single in Japan, based on life history interview research conducted in Japan. It argues that singlehood increased in Japan due largely to structural barriers and culture, which have caused many women to drift into singlehood. From interviewees' life history accounts, Yoshida reconstructs the social, cultural, and economic contexts lived through by women of age groups with high never-married rates, and demonstrates how these contexts have had profound impacts on life courses of women, many of whom remain unmarried against their wishes and despite their intent to marry.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317507185
• Artikelnr.: 47139863

Autorenporträt

Akiko Yoshida is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

Inhaltsangabe

01. Acknowledgments
02. Introduction: The Drift into Singlehood
03. Chapter 2: Decline of Marriage Age Norm: Cohort Effects and Anomie
04. Chapter 3: Limited Chances of Romance and Problematic Men: Structural
Barriers and Gender Ideology
05. Chapter 4: Cohort Contrast in Marriages that Surrounded Women: Impacts
of Linked Lives
06. Chapter 5: Women's Ideas about Gender Roles: Persistence of Traditional
Gender Ideology
07. Chapter 6: Why Aren't Japanese Women Getting Married?
08. Conclusion and Implications
09. Appendix
10. Notes
11. Bibliography
12. Index