Gender, Nation and State in Modern Japan
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Andrea Germer is Associate Professor of Gender Studies, Japanese Studies and Visual Culture at Kyushu University and the author of Historische Frauenforschung in Japan [Womenâs History in Japan], 2003. Research interests include gender and nation, feminist theory, propaganda, visual history and transcultural aesthetics. Vera Mackie is Senior Professor of Asian Studies in the Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts at the University of Wollongong and Research Leader of the Forum on Human Rights Research. She has published widely on cultural studies, gender and sexuality studies and feminist history. Ulrike Wöhr is Professor of Japanese Studies and Gender Studies at Hiroshima City University and the author of Frauen zwischen Rollenerwartung and Selbstdeutung [Women between Role-Expectations and Self-Representation], a historical reading of Japanese feminist thought of the 1910s. Research interests include gender and feminism in modern Japan from a transnational perspective.<p>"Gender, Nation, and State in Modern Japan offers richly complex views of the forces and individuals shaping modern Japan. This volume will surely inspire conversation on the gendered politics of Japan as well as other nation-states for years to come." </p><p><strong>Jan Bardsley</strong> University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill<br /><em>Japan Forum, 27:3, 411-414</em></p><p>"In general, the reader comes away from this book with a much more complex picture of the roles and positions of women and men from the beginning of the Meiji Era up to post-bubble economically struggling 2000s Japan. Much of the literature that considers the development of modern nation-states does not take into account the gendering of the processes involved. What is presented as unbiased and gender neutral is in fact highly genderedâit is usually based on the experiences andstories of particular men. This book does a wonderful job of addressing the gap in the literature to inform us of the complexities of how women and men were affected and exploited in various and<br />different ways in Japanâs pursuit of modernity."</p><p><strong>Emma Dalton</strong> <em>LaTrobe University</em></p><p>Social Science Japan Journal, vol 19, no 1, January 2016 109</p><p>"This is a volume no student of gender or of the historical formation of the modern Japanese nation-state should fail to read⊠The editors do an excellent job of rendering the translated chapters into accessible English. This volume will be of interest both to scholars and to advanced undergraduate and graduate students in the fields of Japanese gender studies and political history."</p><p><strong>Barbara Molony,</strong> <em>Santa Clara University</em>,</p><p>Journal of Japanese Studies</p>