Home Away from Home: Japanese Corporate Wives in the United States

by Kurotani and Sawa Kurotani

Drawing attention to domestic space as the critical juncture between the global and the local, Home Away from Home is an innovative ethnography of the daily lives of middle-class Japanese housewives who accompany their husbands on temporary corporate job assignments in the United States. These women are charged with the task of creating and maintaining restful Japanese homes in a foreign environment so that their husbands are able to remain...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822336227
• ISBN13: 9780822336228
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.2"