Japanese Women Class & the Tea Ceremony

Informationen zum Autor Kaeko Chiba is a postdoctoral fellow of the Center for Regional Sustainability Initiatives! Akita International University!and holds an associate professor (Jyun-Kyojyu) certificate from the Urasenke tea school in Japan. Klappentext Examines the complex relationship between class and gender dynamics among tea ceremony (chadAi) practitioners in Japan. Focusing on practitioners in a provincial city! Akita! this book surveys the rigid! hierarchical chadAi system at grass roots level. Zusammenfassung This book examines the complex relationship between gender and class among Japanese tea ceremony (chado) practitioners in Japan. It argues that chado has a cultural, economic, social and symbolic value and is used as a tool to improve gender and class equality. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction 2. Identity work 3 Time! space and the experience of chado 4. Bourdieu's theory of capital and discourses on class 5. Gender 6. Class 7. Raison d'être

Summary

This book examines the complex relationship between gender and class among Japanese tea ceremony (chado) practitioners in Japan. It argues that chado has a cultural, economic, social and symbolic value and is used as a tool to improve gender and class equality.

Product details

• Authors: Kaeko Chiba, Kaeko (Akita International University Chiba, Chiba Kaeko
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.07.2010
• EAN: 9780415557153
• ISBN: 978-0-415-55715-3
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Japan Anthropology Workshop Series; Japan Anthropology Workshop Series
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; Japan, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Regional Studies, Social and cultural anthropology, Regional / International studies, Gender studies: women, Social classes, Gender studies: women and girls, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General