Ampojapan-Asia Quarterly Review - Voices From the Japanese Womens Movement

Voices From the Japanese Womens Movement — read online for free the complete book (whole text) full work

Below is the text of the book, divided by pages. System saving the place of the last page read, allows you to conveniently read the book "Voices From the Japanese Womens Movement" online for free, without having to search again every time where you left off. Put a bookmark, and you can go to the page where you finished reading at any time.

Light

Font size:

↓

↑

Georgia Tahoma Arial Verdana

Reset

Interval:

↓

↑

Bookmark:

Make

1234567...48

VOICES

from the

JAPANESE

WOMENS

MOVEMENT

VOICES

from the

JAPANESE

WOMENS

MOVEMENT

Edited by AMPO
Japan Asia Quarterly Review

Foreword ty Charlotte Bunch

An East Gate Book

An East Gate Book

First published 1996 by M.E. Sharpe

Published 2015 by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN
711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

Copyright 1996 Taylor & Francis. All rights reserved.

No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

Notices
No responsibility is assumed by the publisher for any injury and/or damage to persons or property as a matter of products liability, negligence or otherwise, or from any use of operation of any methods, products, instructions or ideas contained in the material herein.

Practitioners and researchers must always rely on their own experience and knowledge in evaluating and using any information, methods, compounds, or experiments described herein. In using such information or methods they should be mindful of their own safety and the safety of others, including parties for whom they have a professional responsibility.

Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and
are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Voices from the Japanese womens movement/
edited by AMPO, Japan Asia quarterly review.
p. cm.(Japan in the modern world)
An East gate book.
Includes index.
ISBN 1-56324-725-9 (hardcover: alk. paper).
ISBN 1-56324-726-7 (pbk.: alk. paper)
1. FeminismJapan.
2. WomenJapan.
I. Ampo.
II. Series.
HQ1762.V65 1995
305.420952dc20
95-43512
CIP

ISBN 13: 9781563247262 (pbk)
ISBN 13: 9781563247255 (hbk)

Contents

CHARLOTTE BUNCH

INOUE REIKO

Kanai Yoshiko

Dialogue with Kitazawa Yoko, Matsui Yayori, and Yunomae Tomoko

Dialogue with Ehara Yumiko, Nakajimi Michiko, Matsui Yayori, and Yunomae Tomoko

Matsui Yayori

Nakano Mami

Hayashi Yoko

Yamazaki Hiromi

Yunomae Tomoko

Okura Yayoi

Murata Noriko

Ann Kaneko

Hara Minako

Takazato Suzuyo

Hikita Mitsuko

Suzuki Mieko

Kim Pu Ja

Keira Tomoko

Abe Hiroko

Sakurai Yoko

Ooishi Yoshino

Ishiwatari Sadako

Kondo Keiko and Makishita Noriko

Taguchi Atsuko

Arimura Junko

FukumaYuko

Tomizawa Yoshiko

Abe Hiroko is a member of Mizura, a space for women in Yokohama.

Arimura Junko is the vice chairperson of the Seikatsu Club.

Ehara Yumiko is a leading Japanese feminist theoretician and teaches at Tokyo Metropolitan University.

Fukuma Yuko is a Kawasaki City public servant.

Hara Minako is a professional translator and has long been in-volved in lesbian issues.

Hayashi Yoko, a lawyer, has long worked on the issue of human rights.

Hikita Mitsuko, a farmer, is a member of a rural womens net-work in Okitama, in northeast Japan. She was formerly on the editorial staff of AMPO.

Inoue Reiko is the director of the Pacific Asia Resource Center, the organization which publishes AMPO.

Ishiwatari Sadako is a member of the womens section of the Miura Fishermens Cooperative Association.

Kanai Yoshiko is the author of many books in Japanese, including Moving Mountains: Women and Feminism in Japan, which is scheduled to be published in English. She is a professor at Nagaoka Junior College.

Ann Kaneko is a freelance filmmaker and writer. She is cur-rently producing a documentary on foreign workers in Japan.

Keira Tomoko is a member of Yay Yukar Park.

Kim Pu Ja is a member of the Uli-Yosong Network on Comfort Women, which was founded by resident Koreans to resolve the issue of the military sex slaves.

Kitazawa Yoko is co-president of the Asia Pacific Resource Center and an editorial board member of AMPO.

Kondo Keiko and Makishita Noriko are members of the Womens Space in Sapporo, Hokkaido.

Matsui Yayori is the director of the Asia Japan Womens Resource Center and the author of many books, including one work in English, Womens Asia.

Murata Noriko, a member of the Asian Womens Association, has worked to support victims of smuggling.

Nakajima Michiko, a lawyer, has long been involved in the issue of womens labor rights.

Nakano Mami is a lawyer who has long worked on the issue of womens labor rights.

Okura Yayoi is a member of the ODA Research and Study Group based in Bangkok.

Ooishi Yoshino is a freelance photographer.

Sakurai Yoko is a member of the Forum Yokohama.

Suzuki Mieko is a member of the International Movement Against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism (IMADR).

Takaguchi Atsuko is a member of the Apron workers collec-tive.

Takazato Suzuyo, an assembly member from Naha City, has long been active in the issues of women and U.S. military bases.

Tomizawa Yoshiko is a member of the Suginami Ward assem-bly in Tokyo.

Yamazaki Hiromi is a member of a group supporting the legal suits filed by former comfort women.

Yunomae Tomoko, a freelance writer, is a member of a group investigating the problem of spousal violence.

Women often ask how they can be more global in their approaches to feminism. How can they know what is happening in womens movements elsewhere or what can they teach to make their courses more international in scope? This book helps to answer those questions. It is the kind of collection that I long for from every country in the world. It includes a wide array of diverse voices form a rural farmer to a lesbian translator, from lawyers to artists and trade unionists. And it spans the generations from veteran feminist pioneers to younger voices from the so-called post-feminist generation.

Too little is known about feminism in Japan in the rest of the world. Even today, I meet people who seem surprised that it even exists in a country so commonly identified with strong patriarchal traditions. Yet feminism in post-war Japan has a long and ardent history. I recall my own thrill in 1970 when I discovered a small feminists cell discussing womens liberation and planning a womens collective in Tokyo. For years after that I received numerous circulars from womens groups in Japan, and the English language newsletter

Next page

1234567...48

Light

Font size:

↓

↑

Georgia Tahoma Arial Verdana

Reset

Interval:

↓

↑

Bookmark:

Make

Similar books «Voices From the Japanese Womens Movement»

Look at similar books to Voices From the Japanese Womens Movement. We have selected literature similar in name and meaning in the hope of providing readers with more options to find new, interesting, not yet read works.

Brian J. McVeigh

Life in a Japanese Womens College: Learning to be Ladylike

Nishimura Junko

Motherhood and Work in Contemporary Japan

Marie Söderberg

Japanese Influences and Presences in Asia

George Hicks

The Comfort Women: Sex Slaves of the Japanese Imperial Forces

The Editors of REA

Japanese for Beginners Super Review

Andrew Gordon

Portraits of the Japanese Workplace: Labor Movements, Workers, and Managers

Nobuko Anan

Contemporary Japanese Women’s Theatre and Visual Arts

Yoshie Tomozumi Nakamura

Japanese Women in Leadership

Ueda

Far beyond the field: haiku by Japanese women

Noritake Tsuda

A History of Japanese Art: From Prehistory to the Taisho Period

Brian Ashcraft

Japanese Tattoos: History, Culture, Design

The Hiro Japanese Center

600 Basic Japanese Verbs The Essential Reference Guide

Discussion, reviews of the book Voices From the Japanese Womens Movement and just readers' own opinions. Leave your comments, write what you think about the work, its meaning or the main characters. Specify what exactly you liked and what you didn't like, and why you think so.