- About the Contributors
- Introduction
- I. Gender, Selfhood, Culture
- 1. Made in Japan: Meiji Women’s Education [Martha Tocco]
- 2. Thoughts on the Early Meiji Gentleman [Donald Roden]
- 3. Commodifying and Engendering Morality: Self-Cultivation and the Construction of the “Ideal Woman” in 1920s Mass Women’s Magazines [Barbara Sato]
- II. Genders, Bodies, Sexualities
- 4. “S” is for Sister: Schoolgirl Intimacy and “Same-Sex Love” in Early Twentieth-Century Japan [Gregory M. Pflugfelder]
- 5. Seeds and (Nest) Eggs of Empire: Sexology Manuals/Manual Sexology [Mark Driscoll]
- 6. Engendering Eugenics: Feminists and Marriage Restriction Legislation in the 1920s [Sumiko Otsubo]
- III. Gender, Empire, War
- 7. Making “Soldiers”: The Imperial Army and the Japanese Man in Meiji Society and State [Theodore F. Cook, Jr.]
- 8. Reading the Japanese Colonial Archive: Gender and Bourgeois Civility in Korea and Manchuria before 1932 [Barbara J. Brooks]
- 9. Women’s Deaths as Weapons of War in Japan’s “Final Battle” [Haruko Taya Cook]
- IV. Gender, Work, Economy
- 10. Gendering the Labor Market: Evidence from the Interwar Textile Industry [Janet Hunter]
- 11. Sorting Coal and Pickling Cabbage: Korean Women in the Japanese Mining Industry [W. Donald Smith]
- 12. Managing the Japanese Household: The New Life Movement in Postwar Japan [Andrew Gordon]
- V. Theorizing Gender
- 13. The Quest for Women’s Rights in Turn-of-the-Century Japan [Barbara Molony]
- 14. Womanhood, War, and Empire: Transmutations of “Good Wife, Wise Mother” before 1931 [Kathleen Uno]
- 15. Toward a Critique of Transhistorical Femininity [Ayako Kano]
- 16. Feminism and Media in the Late Twentieth Century: Reading the Limits of a Politics of Transgression [Setsu Shigematsu]
- Index
HARVARD EAST ASIAN MONOGRAPHS
Harvard East Asian Monographs 251
Gendering Modern Japanese History
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Publication Date: 11/30/2005
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