Journal of Home Economics of Japan
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Volume 66, Issue 12
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  • Conceptualizing Riding Habits in the Late Victorian and Edwardian Periods: The Emergence of Middle-class Horsewomanship in Britain
    Taeko SAKAI
    2015 Volume 66 Issue 12 Pages 603-614
    Published: 2015
    Released on J-STAGE: December 22, 2015
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11428/jhej.66.603
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      This essay explores how riding habits became a symbol of Englishwomanhood roughly between the 1870s and the early 1920s in Britain. During this period, as riding became popular among affluent middle-class people, riding habits came to be distinctively associated with Englishwomen and their personality. I will first provide evidence that riding from the 1870s onwards had been peculiarly transformed into an occasion of self-regulating middle-class women, while offering them a new respectable form of pastime. Then, in the second part of the essay, I will explain how the modernization of the riding industry shifted the ethos of riding (horsewomanship) toward middle-class taste and lifestyle, which played a key role in transforming riding into a recognizable sign of “English” womanhood.
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  • Survey of Meal Delivery Service for the Elderly
    Keiko KISUMI, Miki ASONUMA, Kumiko SHIMOMURA, Ai HONDA, Osamu NAKAMURA ...
    2015 Volume 66 Issue 12 Pages 615-622
    Published: 2015
    Released on J-STAGE: December 22, 2015
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11428/jhej.66.615
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      An interview survey was conducted of local government officers to investigate the standard of meal delivery services provided for the elderly by local governments. The nutritional quality was numerically defined by some interviewees, but not by all. The costs per meal was shared equally by all users in some cases, but the cost varied in other cases, depending on the use of different delivery services. The results show that, in many cases, the local government does not pay much attention to the contents of the meals provided by their delivery service. Given the aim of helping the elderly to live at home, maintain their health, and further improve their conditions, it is suggested that more care needs to be taken to check the meal content provided for local government by the meal delivery services.
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  • The Change of Life Post Breast Cancer Surgery, Focusing on Clothing
    Naoka YAMAMOTO, Hiroko KAWABATA
    2015 Volume 66 Issue 12 Pages 623-632
    Published: 2015
    Released on J-STAGE: December 22, 2015
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11428/jhej.66.623
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      Interviews were carried out on seven females who underwent breast cancer surgery regarding their mental and physical state and their wearing habits. After classifying their remarks into three categories－time of cancer detection, treatment period and the present time－the QOL of the subjects during each of the aforementioned periods and the shift in their wearing style were examined by text mining analysis. The results are as follows;
      (1) QOL analysis showed that the mental burden was at its highest before surgery, mainly due to the uneasiness felt about having the disease and the impeding operation. Remarks about the physical burden and movement restrictions that affected their daily life were most frequently mentioned during the treatment period, while dissatisfaction with their clothes seemed to be of most concern at the present time.
      (2) During the treatment period, remarks about their poor health were more frequent than remarks about their clothing. However, some seemed to experience inconvenience caused by their clothing restrictions during treatment and the side effects. Remarks about clothing seemed to increase after the treatment, especially regarding special brassieres for breast cancer patients.
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