Feminism in Modern Japan: Citizenship,

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.

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)

Women 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

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Feminism in Modern Japan: Citizenship, Embodiment and Sexuality

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