Taeko Shibahara

Japanese Women and the Transnational Feminist Movement Before World War II

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Produktbeschreibung

This book traces the development of feminist consciousness in Japan from 1871 to 1941. Taeko Shibahara uncovers some fascinating histories as she examines how middle-class women navigated between domestic and international influences to form ideologies and strategies for reform. They negotiated a humanitarian space as Japan expanded its nationalist, militarist, imperialist, and patriarchal power.    Focusing on these women's political awakening and activism, Shibahara shows how Japanese feminists channeled and adapted ideas selected from international movements and from interactions with mainly American social activists.    Japanese Women and the Transnational Feminist Movement before World War II also connects the development of international contacts with the particular contributions of Ichikawa Fusae to the suffrage movement, Ishimoto Shidzue to the birth control movement, and Gauntlett Tsune to the peace movement by touching on issues of poverty, prostitution, and temperance. The result provides a window through which to view the Japanese women's rights movement with a broader perspective.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Univ of Chicago Behalf of Temple Univ Press
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9781439910382
• ISBN-10: 1439910383
• Artikelnr.: 39684864

Autorenporträt

Taeko Shibahara is an independent scholar who teaches part time at Doshisha University and Ryukoku University. She is a co-translator of Ellen Carol DuBois and Lynn Dumenil's Through Women's Eyes: An American History with Documents.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Abbreviations Chronology   Introduction   1  Laying the Foundations for an International Feminist Perspective: Challenging the Discourses of Civilization     Women
s Situation in Modernizing Japan    Christian Social Activism and the Notion of the Women
s Rights Movement    Social Questions and Socialist Women   2  
Carrying with Her New Ideals and a New Outlook
: The Development of Cross-cultural Contacts, 1902
1930    Awakening International Feminist Discourse and the IWSA, 1902
1920    Different Perceptions about Women
s Roles in Society: The IWSA Dialogue with Japanese Educators    Propagating Western Knowledge about Women
s Social Activism in the 1910s    The Problem of Unity in the Women
s Rights Movement in Early 1920s Japan    From Social Reform Work to the Unified Suffrage Movement    The First Pan-Pacific Women
s Conference in Honolulu in 1928   3  Generating a Feminist Movement through Peace Activism, 1915
1941    No Peace without Equality    The Buildup to the Foundation of the Women
s Peace Association in Japan    In Japanese Women
s Own Image     Women Pacifists in International Politics    Expanding Spaces for Peace Activism    Combining a Nuanced Strategy with a Middle Way   4  From Private to Public: Ishimoto Shidzue and the Birth Control Movement up to 1941    Ishimoto Shidzue and the Development of Feminist Consciousness    Ishimotös Encounter with the Discourse of the Birth Control Movement    From the Private to the Public     Ishimoto Shidzue in America, 1924     Linking Birth Control with Suffrage     Broadening Feminist Consciousness   5  Using Their Initiative at Home and Beyond: Suffragists
 Wartime Activism, 1931
1941    The Women
s Rights Movement in the Aftermath of the Manchurian Incident    Women
s Initiative in Wartime Social Activism during the Second Sino-Japanese War    Writing for Japanese Women    The Gap between American and Japanese Women Widens    The Suspension of Suffragist Activism   Conclusion Epilogue: Postwar Continuity   Appendix A: Notable People  Appendix B: Notable Organizations  Notes Bibliography  Index