Etsuko Kato

The Tea Ceremony and Women's Empowerment in Modern Japan (eBook, PDF)

Bodies Re-Presenting the Past

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Produktbeschreibung

The subject of the tea ceremony is well researched both in and outside Japan, but the women who practice it are hardly ever discussed. "The Tea Ceremony and Women's Empowerment in Modern Japan" rectifies this by discussing the meaning of the Japanese tea ceremony for women practitioners in Japan from World War II to the present day. It examines how lay tea ceremony practitioners have been transforming this cultural activity whilst being, in turn, transformed by it.
Drawing on Foucault's concept of discipline and focusing primarily on the body, this book illuminates how female ceremony practitioners have empowered themselves through the unique way of using their bodies. In particular the book examines:
* The relationship between the tea ceremony and the body
* Myths surrounding the body
* Body discipline
* Postwar effects on the tea ceremony
* Tea ceremony networks
* Meaning of the ceremony in the lives of women
By combining anthropological observation with historical examination of the tea ceremony, this book radically revises mainstream discourses surrounding women and the tea ceremony in Japan. It will prove of interest to scholars of Japanese Studies, Gender Studies and anthropology alike.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134372379
• Artikelnr.: 38402482

Autorenporträt

Etsuko Kato is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the International Christian University, Tokyo.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments List of Tables, Figures and Plates A note on Local Terms
and Transcriptions Introduction Part I: The Tea Ceremony as Bodily
Discipline 1. The Tea Ceremony as Bodily Discipline 2. Bodily Discipline
and Myths Part II: Two Postwar Phenomena in the Tea Ceremony 3. The Birth
of Sôgô-bunka Discourse and Feminization of the Tea Ceremony Part III:
Women's Tea Ceremony Today 4. Shachû and Women's Tea Ceremony Networks 5.
The Past Re-Presented 6. The Meaning of the Tea Ceremony in Women's Lives
Conclusion Glossary Bibliography