Intimacy and Reproduction in Contemporary Japan

ISBN-13: 9780815361497 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 214 str.

Si Genaro (Nanyang Technological University Castro-Vazquez

Opis

Castro-Vazquez adopts a new approach in studying the decreasing fertility rates contributing to ageing population in modern Japan. Based on the accounts of 57 married Japanese women, he employs symbolic interactionism as a framework to examine the various factors affecting decision-making on childbirth. With strong contextual information as the foundation, he offers fresh insight as to how Japanese women today perceive the idea of childbirth in a modernized society which will assist the readers in understanding the factors causing Japan’s ageing population.

O autorze

Genaro Castro-Vázquez is Assistant Professor in the Division of Sociology at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.