Handbook of Feminisms in Japan

Andrea Germer is professor of Japanese studies at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. She has published on women’s history and movements, gender and animation, visual propaganda and fascism, including the co-edited volumes Gender, Nation and State in Modern Japan (2014), and Gendering Fascism (forthcoming 2025). Ulrike Wöhr teaches gender studies and Japanese studies at Hiroshima City University. Her research has focused on women’s history and on feminist movements and thought in modern and contemporary Japan, often applying a transnational framework. She has also published on German colonialist discourse on Japan, from a gender perspective.

• Introduction to Feminisms in Japan, Chapter 1 Academia: Gender Studies, Women's Studies and Feminist Movements, Chapter 2 Anarchism: Feminist Confrontations with Patriarchy and the State, Chapter 3 Antifeminism: A Trajectory of Mockery, Denial and Fake Equality, Chapter 4 Art: Feminist Interventions in Theory and Practice, Chapter 5 Care: From the Gender Division of Labor to a Feminist Ethics of Care, Chapter 6 Disability: Feminist Challenges to Eugenics and the Emergence of Disabled Women's Voices, Chapter 7 Ecology: Feminist Contentions Surrounding Women's Logic and Women's Complicity, Chapter 8 Education: Feminists Promoting Educational Change and Resisting the Gender Backlash, Chapter 9 Ethnicity: Liberation Movements of Korean Women in Japan and the Discovery of Intersectional Feminism, Chapter 10 The Family and Marriage: Feminist Interventions in a Society with a Bilateral Kinship Structure, Chapter 11 Futures: Possibilities and Pitfalls for Feminism as an Ongoing Political Project, Chapter 12 History: Feminist Negotiations of Female Subjecthood and Cultural Identity, Chapter 13 Housewives: Gendered Identity as a Feminist Claim on Democratic Community, Chapter 14 Language: Feminist Challenges to Linguistic Sexism and Heterosexism, Chapter 15 LGBTIQ: Inclusion and Exclusion within Feminisms, Chapter 16 Liberalism: Liberal Feminism and Women's Quest for Full Citizenship, Chapter 17 Literary Criticism: Feminist Theory in Classical Japanese Literary Studies, Chapter 18 Literature: Feminist Bodies of Fiction, Chapter 19 Maternalism: Transmutations of Motherhood in Feminist Thought and Activism, Chapter 20 Media: Feminist Strategies to Affect Change in Mass Media Advertising, Chapter 21 Migration: Feminist Perspectives on the Stagnation of The Lost Thirty Years, Chapter 22 Peace Movements and Anti-Militarism: Feminists Organizing for Gender Equality and Against War, Chapter 23 Pornography: From Radical Feminist Critique to Organized Victim Support, Chapter 24 Prostitution and Sex Work: Competing Feminist Perspectives on Exploitation and Agency, Chapter 25 Protofeminism: Negotiating the Gender Order of Tokugawa Japan, Chapter 26 Radical Feminisms: Rising Up Within and Against the Japanese Context, Chapter 27 Religion: Feminist Solidarity Beyond Denominational and Confessional Boundaries, Chapter 28 Reproduction: The Feminist Reproductive Rights Movement and the Lingering Shadow of the Eugenics Protection Act, Chapter 29 Sexual Slavery: Feminist Responses to Japan's System of Comfort Women, Chapter 30 Sexual Violence: Shifting Conceptions, with Feminism and Beyond, Chapter 31 Socialism and Marxism: Feminist Critique of Women's Labor under Capitalism, Chapter 32 The State: Feminists' Theoretical and Practical Engagement, Chapter 33 Transnational Movements: Leveraging International Standards and Decolonizing Feminism, Chapter 34 Uman Ribu: The 1970s Women's Liberation Movement, Chapter 35 Work: Feminist Challenges to the Employment System and the Underlying Gender Division of Labor, Appendix: Japanese Laws and Policy Plans, Appendix 2: Exhibitions on Feminist Art and Women Artists, Index