内容

目次

Part 1: Introduction  1. The Changing Japanese Family  Part 2: The Demographic Transition  2. Demographics of the Japanese Family: Entering Uncharted Territory  3. Japanese Youth’s Attitudes Towards Marriage and Child-Rearing  4. Strong in Tradition and yet Innovative: The Puzzles of the Italian Family  Part 3: The Shifting Gender Balance  5. Changes in the Workplace and their Impact on the Family  6. The Emergence of "Nurturing Fathers": Discourses and Practices of Fatherhood in Contemporary Japan  7. Changing Language, Gender and Family Relations in Japan  Part 4: Shifts in the Boundaries of the Family  8. Mother-Rearing: The Social World of Mothers in a Japanese Suburb  9. Policing the Japanese Family: Child Abuse, Domestic Violence and the Changing Role of the State  10. Changing Families and Policy Responses to an Ageing Japanese Society  11. Different Paths to Welfare: Family Transformations, the Production of Welfare, and Future Prospects for Social Care in Italy and Japan