ISBN:
9780415381383
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (337 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
ASAA Women in Asia Series
Parallel Title:
Print version Gender, Nation and State in Modern Japan
DDC:
305.30952
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Gender, Nation and State in Modern Japan makes a unique contribution to the international literature on the formation of modern nation-states in its focus on the gendering of the modern Japanese nation-state from the late nineteenth century to the present. References to gender relations are deeply embedded in the historical concepts of nation and nationalism, and in the related symbols, metaphors and arguments. Moreover, the development of the binary opposition between masculinity and femininity and the development of the modern nation-state are processes which occurred simultaneously. They we
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of contributors; Series Editor's foreword; 1 Introduction: gender, nation and state in modern Japan; 2 The formation of modern Imperial Japan from the perspective of gender; 3 Narratives of heroism in Meiji Japan: nationalism, gender and impersonation; 4 The nexus of nation, culture and gender in modern Japan: the resistance of Kanno Sugako and Kaneko Fumiko
Description / Table of Contents:
5 Domestic roles and the incorporation of women into the nation-state: the emergence and development of the 'good wife, wise mother' ideology6 The making of Ainu citizenship from the viewpoint of gender and ethnicity; 7 The gendering of work and workers in the process of modernising the textile industry; 8 The nation at work: gendered working patterns in the Taishō and Shōwa periods; 9 'The spirit to take up a gun': militarising gender in the Imperial Army; 10 Women's professional expertise and women's suffrage in Japan, 1868-1952
Description / Table of Contents:
11 From natalism to family planning: population policy in wartime and the post-war period12 From mothers of the nation to embodied citizens: gender, nation and reflexive modernisation in Japan; 13 Gender and citizenship in the anti-nuclear power movement in 1970s Japan; 14 Salaryman anxieties in Tokyo Sonata: shifting discourses of state, family and masculinity in post-bubble Japan; 15 Identity politics: gender, nation and state in modern European philosophy; 16 From personal experience to political activism in the 1970s: my view of feminism; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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