Japanese Women, Class and the Tea Ceremony: The Voices of Tea Practitioners in Northern Japan

ISBN-13: 9780415557153 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 218 str.

Kaeko Chiba

Opis

This work examines the complex relationship between gender and class among Japanese tea ceremony 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.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Identity work  3 Time, space and the experience of chadō  4. Bourdieu’s theory of capital and discourses on class  5. Gender  6. Class  7. Raison d’être

O autorze

Kaeko Chiba is a postdoctoral fellow of the Center for Regional Sustainability Initiatives, Akita International University, and holds an associate professor (Jyūn-Kyōjyū) certificate from the Urasenke tea school in Japan.