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Japanese Feminist Debates

A Century of Contention on Sex, Love, and Labor

By: Ayako Kano

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Japanese Feminist Debates

A Century of Contention on Sex, Love, and Labor

By: Ayako Kano

Recent years have seen a surge of interest in Japanese feminism and gender history. This new volume brings to light Japan's feminist public sphere, a discursive space in which academic, journalistic, and political voices have long met and sparred over issues that remain controversial to the present day: prostitution, pornography, reproductive rights, the balance between motherhood and paid work, relationships between individual, family, and state. Japanese Feminist Debates: A Century of Contention on Sex, Love, and Labor contributes to this discussion in a number of unique ways. The book is organized around intellectually and politically charged debates, including important recent developments in state feminism and the conservative backlash against it, spearheaded by the current prime minister, Abe Shinzō. Focusing on essential questions that have yet to be resolved, Ayako Kano traces the emergence and development of these controversies in relation to social, cultural, intellectual, and political history. Her focus on the " rondan"—the Japanese intellectual public sphere—allows her to show how disputes taking place therein interacted with both popular culture and policy making. Kano argues that these feminist debates explain an important paradox: why Japan is such a highly developed modern nation yet ranks dismally low in gender equality. Part of the answer lies in the contested definitions of gender equality and women's liberation, and this book traces these contentions over the course of modern Japanese history. It also situates these debates in relation to modern Japanese social policy and comparative discussions about welfare regimes. By covering an entire century, Japanese Feminist Debates is able to trace the origins and development of feminist consciousness from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Based on over a decade of research, this wide-ranging, lively, up-to-date book will both spark discussion among specialists grappling with long-enduring subjects of intellectual debate and animate undergraduate and graduate classrooms on modern Japanese women's history and gender studies.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824855833

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Acting Like A Woman in Modern Japan

Theater, Gender, and Nationalism

By: Ayako Kano

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Acting Like A Woman in Modern Japan

Theater, Gender, and Nationalism

By: Ayako Kano

Weaving together careful readings of plays and reviews, memoirs and interviews, biographies, and critical essays, Acting Like a Woman in Modern Japan traces the emergence of the first generation of modern actresses in Japan, a nation in which male actors had long dominated the public stage. What emerges is a colorful and complex picture of modern Japanese gender, theater, and nationhood. Using the lives and careers of two dominant actresses from the Meiji and Taisho eras, Ayako Kano reveals the fantasies, fears, and impact that women on stage created in Japan as it entered the 20th century.

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Palgrave Macmillan

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0312239971

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9780312239978

Japanese Feminist Debates

A Century of Contention on Sex, Love, and Labor

By: Ayako Kano

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A Century of Contention on Sex, Love, and Labor

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Whistler and Artistic Exchange between Japan and the West

After Japonisme in Britain

By: Ayako Ono

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Whistler and Artistic Exchange between Japan and the West

After Japonisme in Britain

By: Ayako Ono

Ono examines cross-cultural artistic exchange between the West and Japan from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. Studies of Japonisme have been dominated by searching out relationships of influence between artworks–trying to identify which specific works influenced a particular artist. Ono argues that a more holistic understanding of 'spillover effects' is necessary in fully comprehending the nuances of these relationships. She bases this argument on documents and works of art in the context of globalisation, looking at the relationships between James McNeill Whistler and others with their contemporaries in the Japanese artistic and literary worlds. This was a more complex two-way exchange than is often appreciated, with Western artists taking inspiration from (to them) new Japanese styles, while Japanese artists and writers were trying to craft a 'modern', more western-influences style to reflect the modern nation of Japan emerging onto the world stage after centuries of relative isolation. A fascinating analysis of the role of globalisation and cultural exchange in the development of new and hybrid artforms, that will be essential reading for scholars of this fascinating period in international art history.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000877094

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9781000877090

The Japan-British Exhibition of 1910

Gateway to the Island Empire of the East

By: Ayako Hotta-Lister

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The Japan-British Exhibition of 1910

Gateway to the Island Empire of the East

By: Ayako Hotta-Lister

Faced with western contempt and suspicion, the Meiji Government staged this exhibition to advance Japanese agendas in political, economic and educational terms. The first major study principally concerned with the Japanese side of this story.

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Psychology Press

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1873410883

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9781873410882

Whistler and Artistic Exchange between Japan and the West

After Japonisme in Britain

By: Ayako Ono

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After Japonisme in Britain

By: Ayako Ono

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Japanese Feminist Debates

Japanese Feminist Debates

Acting Like A Woman in Modern Japan

Acting Like A Woman in Modern Japan

Japanese Feminist Debates

Japanese Feminist Debates

Whistler and Artistic Exchange between Japan and the West

Whistler and Artistic Exchange between Japan and the West

The Japan-British Exhibition of 1910

The Japan-British Exhibition of 1910

Whistler and Artistic Exchange between Japan and the West

Whistler and Artistic Exchange between Japan and the West

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