ISBN:
9781592137008
,
1592137008
,
9781592137015
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (x, 226 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Pedagogy of Democracy : Feminism and the Cold War in the U.S. Occupation of Japan
DDC:
305.48
Keywords:
Feminist theory
;
Cold War
;
Postcolonialism
;
Women Violence against
;
History
;
Women Social conditions
;
Cold War
;
Feminist theory
;
Japan ; Foreign relations ; United States
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Japan ; History ; Allied occupation, 1945-1952
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Postcolonialism
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Women ; Japan ; Social conditions
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Women ; Violence against ; Japan ; History
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Electronic books
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United States Foreign relations
;
Japan History Allied occupation, 1945-1952
;
Japan Foreign relations
Abstract:
Pedagogy of Democracy re-interprets the U.S. occupation of Japan from 1945 to 1952 as a problematic instance of Cold War feminist mobilization rather than a successful democratization of Japanese women as previously argued. By combining three fields of research—occupation, Cold War, and postcolonial feminist studies—and examining occupation records and other archival sources, Koikari argues that postwar gender reform was one of the Cold War containment strategies that undermined rather than promoted women’s political and economic rights
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on Japanese Names; 1 Introduction: Recasting Women in the U.S. Occupation of Japan; 2 Feminism, Nationalism, and Colonial Genealogies: Women's Enfranchisement and Constitutional Revision; 3 Feminism, Domestic Containment, and Cold War Citizenry; 4 Women, the Cold War, and the Question of Resistance; 5 Making the Body Respectable: Cold War Containment and Regulation of Sexuality; 6 Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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