近代家庭的形成和终结（增订版）

by Chizuko Ueno, 上野千鹤子

在家庭形态日益多样的今天，越来越多人高呼“家庭”走向了解体。 究竟，何以为家？是不论远近无从选择的血缘，还是一屋几人三餐四季的共同生活？与其说“家庭”是一种现实存在，应该说更多存在于每个人的“家庭自我认同意识”（Family Identify）中，也就是每个人的心理认同和个人选择。对在血缘、种族、婚姻等界限之外的亲密关系的形容，常常说“像家人一样”，也就是个人的心理认同。 从家庭到“像家庭一样”，家庭的临界点在哪里呢？ 此外，作为从充满社会竞争压力的公共领域“逃脱”出来的私人领域，在性别视角下，家庭，仍充斥着权力和资源的不平等，以及由此造成的压迫结构。 依赖性成员（老幼）的存在是不是使家庭稳定的重要因素？看护老幼，为什么成了主妇们的“天职”？家务为什么成了女性的“强制劳动”？在家务这种无偿劳动未曾减轻的前提下，女性进入职场，真的是获得了平等和解放吗？当一个个疑问提出时，作为“爱的共同体”的家庭的盖子，也就被揭开了。

Genres: Japan, Feminism, Nonfiction

432 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2009

About the author

Chizuko Ueno is a Japanese sociologist and Japan's "best-known feminist".

Her research field includes feminist theory, family sociology, and women's history. She is best known for her contribution to gender studies in Japan. As a public intellectual, she played a central role in creating the field of gender studies in Japanese academia. At the same time, her radical tendency and strong character has invited criticism (she described herself as "critical, assertive, and disobedient").

Ueno is a trenchant critic of postwar revisionism and criticizes the whitewashing of Japanese history, which she claims attempts to justify its colonialism, wartime atrocities, and racism both before and after World War II. In particular, she has defended the compensation of Korean comfort women who were forced into prostitution by the Empire of Japan.