"A Bright, Shiny, Fabricated Family Life" is an essay exploring notions of the home, the family unit, and the gender roles within the works of Mako Idemitsu."She [Idemitsu] depicts the home as a place which trains people into male or female roles in family environments based on a strict sexual division of labour" (1). Idemitsu also uses a television set to show images of the history of the family.

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