Gender, Nation and State in Modern Japan

Andrea Germer is Associate Professor of Gender Studies, Japanese Studies and Visual Culture at Kyushu University and the author of Historische Frauenforschung in Japan [Women’s History in Japan], 2003. Research interests include gender and nation, feminist theory, propaganda, visual history and transcultural aesthetics.Vera Mackie is Senior Professor of Asian Studies in the Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts at the University of Wollongong and Research Leader of the Forum on Human Rights Research. She has published widely on cultural studies, gender and sexuality studies and feminist history.Ulrike Wöhr is Professor of Japanese Studies and Gender Studies at Hiroshima City University and the author of Frauen zwischen Rollenerwartung and Selbstdeutung [Women between Role-Expectations and Self-Representation], a historical reading of Japanese feminist thought of the 1910s. Research interests include gender and feminism in modern Japan from a transnational perspective.

• 1. Introduction: Gender, Nation and State in Modern Japan2. The Formation of Modern Imperial Japan from the Perspective of Gender 3. Narratives of Heroism in Meiji Japan: Nationalism, Gender and Impersonation 4. The Nexus of Nation, Culture and Gender in Modern Japan: The Resistance of Kanno Sugako and Kaneko Fumiko 5. Domestic Roles and the Incorporation of Women into the Nation State: The Emergence and Development of the ‘Good Wife, Wise Mother’ Ideology 6. The Making of Ainu Citizenship from the Viewpoint of Gender and Ethnicity7. The Gendering of Work and Workers in the Process of Modernisation of the Textile Industry 8. The Nation at Work: Gendered Working Patterns in the Taishō and Shōwa Periods 9. The Spirit to Take Up a Gun: Militarising Gender in the Imperial Army 10. Women’s Professional Expertise and Women’s Suffrage in Japan, 1868–195211. From Natalism to Family Planning: Population Policy and Its Reception During the War and the Postwar Period 12. From Mothers of the Nation to Embodied Citizens? Reflexive Modernisation, Women’s Movements and the Nation in Japan 13. Gender and Citizenship in the Anti-Nuclear Power Movement in 1970s Japan 14. Salaryman Anxieties in Tokyo Sonata: Shifting Discourses of State, Family and Masculinity in Post-Bubble Japan 15. Identity Politics, Gender and Nation in Modern Western Philosophy16. From Personal Experience to a Political Movement in the 1970s: My View of Feminism

"Gender, Nation, and State in Modern Japan offers richly complex views of the forces and individuals shaping modern Japan. This volume will surely inspire conversation on the gendered politics of Japan as well as other nation-states for years to come." Jan Bardsley University of North Carolina at Chapel HillJapan Forum, 27:3, 411-414"In general, the reader comes away from this book with a much more complex picture of the roles and positions of women and men from the beginning of the Meiji Era up to post-bubble economically struggling 2000s Japan. Much of the literature that considers the development of modern nation-states does not take into account the gendering of the processes involved. What is presented as unbiased and gender neutral is in fact highly gendered—it is usually based on the experiences andstories of particular men. This book does a wonderful job of addressing the gap in the literature to inform us of the complexities of how women and men were affected and exploited in various anddifferent ways in Japan’s pursuit of modernity."Emma Dalton LaTrobe UniversitySocial Science Japan Journal, vol 19, no 1, January 2016 109"This is a volume no student of gender or of the historical formation of the modern Japanese nation-state should fail to read… The editors do an excellent job of rendering the translated chapters into accessible English. This volume will be of interest both to scholars and to advanced undergraduate and graduate students in the fields of Japanese gender studies and political history."Barbara Molony, Santa Clara University,Journal of Japanese Studies