Feminism in Modern Japan: Citizenship, Embodiment and Sexuality

by Vera Mackie

• ISBN13: 9780521527194
• ISBN10: 0521527198
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-03-17
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Tracing the history of feminism in Japan from the end of the nineteenth century to the present, Vera Mackie offers a fascinating account of those who rebelled against convention in the dissemination of ideas which challenged accepted ways of thinking about women, men and society. This carefully documented analysis is for students of feminism and related areas where nothing comparable is currently available.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	xii
Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction	1	(14)
Modernity and postmodernity	2	(2)
Citizenship	4	(6)
Embodiment	10	(5)
Freedom	15	(30)
Kishida Toshiko and the Torch of Freedom	15	(1)
`On wives and concubines'	16	(3)
Kusunose Kita and women's political rights	19	(2)
Gendering the Meiji state	21	(4)
Women's education	25	(4)
Christian women's organisations	29	(1)
Patriotic women	30	(2)
Women in the early socialist movement	32	(3)
Feminism and individualism	35	(10)
The New Women	45	(28)
`I am a New Woman'	45	(4)
Sexuality and survival	49	(2)
`From a Woman in Prison'	51	(1)
The maternal body	52	(3)
Mothers, children and the state	55	(3)
The New Women's Association	58	(2)
`Suffrage is the key'	60	(3)
Purity, corruption and political space	63	(10)
The Red Wave	73	(26)
The body of the worker	73	(2)
The state and women's labour	75	(2)
Liberalism, socialism and feminism	77	(2)
Socialist women's organisations	79	(2)
Yamakawa Kikue and `women's special demands'	81	(3)
Proletarian parties and women's leagues	84	(3)
Imperialism and colonialism	87	(2)
Communist women	89	(1)
Writing the revolution	90	(1)
Gendering the anarchist-bolshevist debates	91	(8)
The Homefront	99	(21)
The homefront and the battlefront	99	(1)
Manchuria, internationalism and nationalism	99	(4)
From the kitchen to the streets	103	(1)
Feminists and the wartime state	104	(2)
Total national mobilisation	106	(3)
Sentiment, sexuality and the state	109	(2)
Production and reproduction	111	(2)
15 August 1945	113	(7)
Citizens	120	(24)
Out of the darkness	120	(2)
Speaking for Japanese women	122	(1)
The Female Diet Members' Club	123	(4)
Equal under the law	127	(4)
Women and unions	131	(1)
Debating domestic labour	132	(2)
Mothers, peace and democracy	134	(2)
The sexual subtext	136	(8)
Liberation	144	(30)
Liberation from the toilet	144	(1)
Women and the New Left	145	(5)
Agora	150	(2)
From Women to Women	152	(1)
Femintern Press	152	(3)
Fighting Women	155	(2)
Liberating the body	157	(2)
Woman and Eros	159	(1)
Wonderful Women	159	(1)
The new Bluestockings	160	(2)
Women's studies	162	(2)
Fighting for reproductive control	164	(10)
Action	174	(28)
`I'm the one who cooks them!'	174	(1)
The International Women's Year Action Group	175	(3)
International Women's Decade	178	(1)
Campaigns for equal opportunity	179	(1)
Rhetorics of protection, rhetorics of rights	180	(4)
Implementing equal opportunity	184	(2)
Work, welfare and social policy	186	(4)
Equal opportunity in education	190	(1)
Nationality and gender	191	(1)
Reproduction revisited	192	(1)
Feminism and the media	193	(2)
The `Madonna' boom	195	(7)
Difference	202	(30)
Beijing and beyond	202	(1)
The Asian Women's Association	202	(2)
Tourism, migration and human rights	204	(3)
Women's refuges	207	(2)
Representing differences	209	(3)
Embodied differences	212	(4)
Sisters in Okinawa	216	(1)
Militarised memories	217	(3)
Degrees of diaspora	220	(1)
Feminism in a transnational frame	221	(11)
Conclusion: Embodied Citizens	232	(4)
Glossary	236	(23)
Select bibliography	259	(20)
Index	279