Intergenerational Relationships Between Married Children and Their Parents in 21st Century Japan - How Are Patrilineal Tradition and Marriage Changing?

Intergenerational Relationships between Married Children and Their Parents in 21st Century Japan introduces a new perspective of the individualized marriage into a study of intergenerational relationships and examines how the patri-lineal tradition is both changing and maintained.

About the author

YAMATO Reiko, Ph.D. (2008), is Professor of Sociology at Kansai University (Japan). She has published extensively on women's employment, care-giving, and intergenerational relationships within the family, including The making of the life-long care-giver in postwar Japan (2008) and co-edited (with Nachiko Kiwaki and Setsuko Onode) Childcare for men and for women in contemporary Japan (2008).

Product details

• Authors: Reiko Yamato
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.07.2021
• EAN: 9789004447479
• ISBN: 978-90-04-44747-9
• No. of pages: 226
• Weight: 505 g
• Series: Intimate and the Public in Asi
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology