In thirteen wide-ranging essays, scholars and students of Asian and women's studies will find a vivid exploration of how female roles and feminine identity have evolved over 350 years, from the Tokugawa era to the end of World War II. Starting from the premise that gender is not a biological given, but is socially constructed and culturally transmitted, the authors describe the forces of change in the construction of female gender and explore the gap between the ideal of womanhood and the reality of Japanese women's lives. Most of all, the contributors speak to the diversity that has characterized women's experience in Japan. This is an imaginative, pioneering work, offering an interdisciplinary approach that will encourage a reconsideration of the paradigms of women's history, hitherto rooted in the Western experience.
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Gail Lee Bernstein is Professor of History at the University of Arizona. She is the author of Haruko's World: A Japanese Farm Woman and Her Community (1983) and co-editor of Japan and the World, Essays on Japanese History and Politics (1988).
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In present-day Japan two domestic activities, motherhood and household management, define the core of women's familial and social obligations. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
modan gaaru, okeru kazoku, modern girl, reproductive work, proletarian women, household division, pronatalist policy, modern boy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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In present-day Japan two domestic activities, motherhood and household management, define the core of women's familial and social obligations. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
modan gaaru, okeru kazoku, modern girl, reproductive work, proletarian women, household division, pronatalist policy, modern boy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Suzuki Bokushi, Princeton University Press, Home Ministry, Domesu Shuppan, United States, Stanford University Press, Yosano Akiko, Tokugawa Japan, Shingaku Woman, Yamakawa Kikue, Gail Lee Bernstein, Iwanami Shoten, University of California Press, Pacific War, University of Chicago Press, Kano Masanao, Meiji Restoration, Meiji Civil Code, Murakami Nobuhiko, Akira Hayami, Columbia University Press, Crested Kimono, Harvard University Press, Ichikawa Fusae New!
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- The Women of Suye Mura by Robert J. Smith on 6 pages
- The Japanese Film: Art and Industry (Expanded Edition) by Joseph L. Anderson on 5 pages
- Japan and the World: Essays on Japanese History and Politics in Honour of Ishida Takeshi by Gail Lee Bernstein on 4 pages
- Japanese Film Directors by Audie Bock on page 304, page 306, and page 311
- Facing Two Ways: The Story of My Life by Baroness Shidzué Ishimoto on page 28, page 39, and Back Matter
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- Acting Like A Woman in Modern Japan: Theater, Gender, and Nationalism by Ayako Kano on 5 pages
- Japanese Women Working by Janet Hunter on 4 pages
- Nation and Nationalism in Japan by Sandra Wilson in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Acting Like A Woman in Modern Japan: Theater, Gender, and Nationalism by Ayako Kano in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Second Metropolis: Pragmatic Pluralism in Gilded Age Chicago, Silver Age Moscow, and Meiji Osaka by Blair A. Ruble on page 297, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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