Gender, Nation and State in Modern Japan
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 were the product of a shift from a stratified, hereditary class society to a functionally-differentiated social body. This volume includes the work of an international group of scholars from Japan, the United States, Australia and Germany, which in many cases appears in English for the first time. It provides an interdisciplinary perspective on the formation of the modern Japanese nation-state, including comparative perspectives from research on the formation of the modern nation-state in Europe, thus bringing research on Japan into a transnational dialogue. This volume will be of interest in the fields of modern Japanese history, gender studies, political science and comparative studies of nationalism.
Andrea Germer is Associate Professor of Gender Studies, Japanese Studies and Visual Culture at Kyushu University and the author of Historische Frauenforschung in Japan (Womens 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 Whr 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 in the 1910s. Research interests include gender and feminism in modern Japan from a transnational perspective.
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Editor: Louise Edwards (University of New South Wales) and Lenore Lyons (The University of Sydney)
Editorial Board:
Susan Blackburn (Monash University)
Hyaeweol Choi (The Australian National University)
Michele Ford (The University of Sydney)
Trude Jacobsen (Northern Illinois University)
Vera Mackie (University of Wollongong)
Anne McLaren (The University of Melbourne)
Mina Roces (University of New South Wales)
Dina Siddiqi (The City University of New York)
Andrea Whittaker (The University of Queensland)
Mukkuvar Women
Gender, hegemony and capitalist transformation in a South Indian fishing community
Kalpana Ram 1991
A World of Difference
Islam and gender hierarchy in Turkey
Julie Marcus 1992
Purity and Communal Boundaries
Women and social change in a Bangladeshi village
Santi Rozario 1992
Madonnas and Martyrs
Militarism and violence in the Philippines
Anne-Marie Hilsdon 1995
Masters and Managers
A study of gender relations in urban Java
Norma Sullivan 1995
Matriliny and Modernity
Sexual politics and social change in rural Malaysia
Maila Stivens 1995
Intimate Knowledge
Women and their health in North-east Thailand
Andrea Whittaker 2000
Women in Asia
Tradition, modernity and globalisation
Louise Edwards and Mina Roces (eds) 2000
Violence against Women in Asian Societies
Gender inequality and technologies of violence
Lenore Manderson and Linda Rae Bennett (eds) 2003
Womens Employment in Japan
The experience of part-time workers
Kaye Broadbent 2003
Chinese Women Living and Working
Anne McLaren (ed.) 2004
Abortion, Sin and the State in Thailand
Andrea Whittaker 2004
Sexual Violence and the Law in Japan
Catherine Burns 2004
Women, Islam and Modernity
Single women, sexuality and reproductive health in contemporary Indonesia
Linda Rae Bennett 2005
The Womens Movement in Post-Colonial Indonesia
Elizabeth Martyn 2005
Women and Work in Indonesia
Michele Ford and Lyn Parker (eds) 2008
Women and Union Activism in Asia
Kaye Broadbent and Michele Ford (eds) 2008
Gender, Islam, and Democracy in Indonesia
Kathryn Robinson 2008
Sex, Love and Feminism in the Asia Pacific
A cross-cultural study of young peoples attitudes
Chilla Bulbeck 2008
Gender, State and Social Power
Divorce in contemporary Indonesia
Kate OShaughnessy 2008
Gender, Household, and State in Post-Revolutionary Vietnam
Jayne Werner 2008
Young Women in Japan
Transitions to adulthood
Kaori Okano 2009
Women, Islam and Everyday Life
Renegotiating polygamy in Indonesia
Nina Nurmila 2009
Feminist Movements in Contemporary Japan
Laura Dales 2009
Gender and Labour in Korea and Japan
Sexing class
Ruth Barraclough and Elyssa Faison (eds) 2009
Gender Diversity in Indonesia
Sexuality, Islam and queer selves
Sharyn Graham Davies 2010
New Women in Colonial Korea
A sourcebook
Hyaeweol Choi 2012
Women Writers in Postsocialist China
Kay Schaffer and Xianlin Song 2013
Domestic Violence in Asia
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Emma Fulu 2014
Gender and Power in Indonesian Islam
Leaders, feminists, Sufis and pesantren selves, edited
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Practicing Feminism in South Korea
The womens movement against sexual violence
Kyungja Jung
The Korean Womens Movement and the State
Bargaining for change
Seung-kyung Kim
Gender, Nation and State in Modern Japan
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Blood, sweat and tears
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Growing up Female in Multi-Ethnic Malaysia
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