Late-in-life childbearing (Kōrei Shussan) in contemporary Japan

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Castro-Vázquez, Genaro
• مؤلفون آخرون: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2015
• الموضوعات: DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Culture
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/93787; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/38396

This paper draws on interviews with a group of 27 Japanese women who were classified as late-in-life-childbearing mothers, or kōrei shussan – women who had had their first delivery at 35 years of age or over. In making sense of the significance, symbolism and consequences of late-life motherhood, th...