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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Temple University 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
   Ishimoto's 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