The Political Economy of Reproduction in Japan

This book analyses the political economy of reproduction and its role in the process of Japanese modernization. Hiroko analyses state attempts and policies to intervene into women's bodies and everyday lives to integrate them into the Japanese political economy. Based on Foucault's concept of governmentality the author develops a model to assess reproduction in three forms, economic, biological and socio-political reproduction from 1968 until the present day.

Takeda Hiroko is Lecturer at the School of East Asian Studies, the University of Sheffield.