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This series focuses on the broad field of Japanese Studies, aimed at the worldwide English language scholarly market, published in Tokyo in English. Each Handbook contains an average of 20 newly written contributions on various aspects of the topic, which together comprise an up-to-date survey of use to scholars and students. The focus is on Humanities and Social Sciences.
Handbook of Feminisms in Japan (Edited by Andrea Germer and Ulrike Wöhr)
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The Handbook of Feminisms in Japan seeks to give a broad and, even without prior knowledge of Japan, easily accessible introduction to a range of feminisms in this non-Western context. With a useful comparative framework, it aims to advance transnational and international perspectives on feminisms around the world. It identifies discourses, theoretical positions and areas of feminist activity or intervention that readily correspond with those of feminisms in other countries, presenting chapters on topics such as radical feminism, maternalism, anarchism, literature, religion and pornography, but it also includes entries on specific historical and socio-cultural configurations, such as Japan’s women’s liberation movement, Ūman Ribu. Building on a growing body of erudite scholarship in Japanese, English and other languages,each chapter succinctly traces historical developments of particular discourses or movements and situates them in the local political and societal context while also making reference to the wider Asian and global contexts. The authors identify the central actors and discuss the theoretical implications and political dimensions of particular feminisms or aspects of feminism in Japan. The discussion in each chapter is based on relevant primary and secondary sources, thus introducing the reader to material for further reading and research.
January, 2025, 363p. Hardback
ISBN: 9784909286123
¥28,875 (tax included)
Editors: Andrea Germer and Ulrike Wöhr
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.
Contributors
Akibayashi Kozue, Doshisha University; Aoyama Kaoru, Kobe University; Elyssa Faison, University of Oklahoma; Andrea Germer, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf; Bettina Gramlich-Oka, Sophia University; Sally A. Hastings, Purdue University; Inoue Teruko (1942–2021), Wako University; Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt, Nagoya University; Jung Yeonghae, activist; Kaya Emiko, activist; Kimura Maki, University College London; Kimura Saeko, Tsuda University; Kitahara Megumi, Osaka University; Robin M. LeBlanc, Washington and Lee University; Claire Maree, University of Melbourne; Forum Mithani, Cardiff University; Nakamura Momoko, Kanto Gakuin University; Nakanishi Yuko, Musashi University; Nakasatomi Hiroshi, Osaka Electro-Communication University; Ochiai Emiko, Kyoto Sangyo University and Kyoto University; Ogawa Reiko, Chiba University; Ogino Miho, researcher; Okano Yayo, Doshisha University; Seo Akwi, Fukuoka Women’s University; Setsu Shigematsu, University of California, Riverside; Mira Sonntag, Rikkyo University; Chelsea Szendi Schieder, Aoyama Gakuin University; Takaya Sachi, University of Tokyo; Takeda Hiroko, Nagoya University; Tanaka Hikaru, Meiji University; Kathleen Uno, Temple University; Anna-Viktoria Vittinghoff, University of Sheffield; Ulrike Wöhr, Hiroshima City University; Yamada Kazuyo, Shiga University; Tomomi Yamaguchi, Montana State University.
Table of Contents 目次
(Editors, Andrea Germer and Ulrike Wöhr, 編)
Introduction to Feminisms in Japan (Andrea Germer and Ulrike Wöhr)
Chapter 1 Academia: Gender Studies, Women’s Studies and Feminist Movements (Inoue Teruko and Kaya Emiko)
Chapter 2 Anarchism: Feminist Confrontations with Patriarchy and the State (Tanaka Hikaru)
Chapter 3 Antifeminism: A Trajectory of Mockery, Denial and Fake Equality (Tomomi Yamaguchi)
Chapter 4 Art: Feminist Interventions in Theory and Practice (Kitahara Megumi, translated by Andrew Maerkle)
Chapter 5 Care: From the Gender Division of Labor to a Feminist Ethics of Care (Okano Yayo)
Chapter 6 Disability: Feminist Challenges to Eugenics and the Emergence of Disabled Women’s Voices (Anna-Viktoria Vittinghoff)
Chapter 7 Ecology: Feminist Contentions Surrounding “Women’s Logic” and Women’s Complicity (Ulrike Wöhr)
Chapter 8 Education: Feminists Promoting Educational Change and Resisting the Gender Backlash (Nakanishi Yuko)
Chapter 9 Ethnicity: Liberation Movements of Korean Women in Japan and the Discovery of Intersectional Feminism (Seo Akwi)
Chapter 10 The Family and Marriage: Feminist Interventions in a Society with a Bilateral Kinship Structure (Ochiai Emiko)
Chapter 11 Futures: Possibilities and Pitfalls for Feminism as an Ongoing Political Project (Chelsea Szendi Schieder)
Chapter 12 History: Feminist Negotiations of Female Subjecthood and Cultural Identity (Andrea Germer)
Chapter 13 Housewives: Gendered Identity as a Feminist Claim on Democratic Community (Robin M. LeBlanc)
Chapter 14 Language: Feminist Challenges to Linguistic Sexism and Heterosexism (Nakamura Momoko)
Chapter 15 LGBTIQ: Inclusion and Exclusion within Feminisms (Claire Maree)
Chapter 16 Liberalism: Liberal Feminism and Women’s Quest for Full Citizenship (Sally A. Hastings)
Chapter 17 Literary Criticism: Feminist Theory in Classical Japanese Literary Studies (Kimura Saeko)
Chapter 18 Literature: Feminist Bodies of Fiction (Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt)
Chapter 19 Maternalism: Transmutations of Motherhood in Feminist Thought and Activism (Kathleen Uno)
Chapter 20 Media: Feminist Strategies to Affect Change in Mass Media Advertising (Forum Mithani)
Chapter 21 Migration: Feminist Perspectives on the Stagnation of “The Lost Thirty Years” (Takaya Sachi)
Chapter 22 Peace Movements and Anti-Militarism: Feminists Organizing for Gender Equality and Against War (Akibayashi Kozue)
Chapter 23 Pornography: From Radical Feminist Critique to Organized Victim Support (Nakasatomi Hiroshi)
Chapter 24 Prostitution and Sex Work: Competing Feminist Perspectives on Exploitation and Agency (Kaoru Aoyama)
Chapter 25 Protofeminism: Negotiating the Gender Order of Tokugawa Japan (Bettina Gramlich-Oka)
Chapter 26 Radical Feminisms: Rising Up Within and Against the Japanese Context (Setsu Shigematsu)
Chapter 27 Religion: Feminist Solidarity Beyond Denominational and Confessional Boundaries (Mira Sonntag)
Chapter 28 Reproduction: The Feminist Reproductive Rights Movement and the Lingering Shadow of the Eugenics Protection Act (Ogino Miho)
Chapter 29 Sexual Slavery: Feminist Responses to Japan’s System of “Comfort Women” (Maki Kimura)
Chapter 30 Sexual Violence: Shifting Conceptions, with Feminism and Beyond (Jung Yeonghae)
Chapter 31 Socialism and Marxism: Feminist Critique of Women’s Labor under Capitalism (Elyssa Faison)
Chapter 32 The State: Feminists’ Theoretical and Practical Engagement (Takeda Hiroko)
Chapter 33 Transnational Movements: Leveraging International Standards and Decolonizing Feminism (Ogawa Reiko) Chapter 34 Ūman Ribu: The 1970s Women’s Liberation Movement (Setsu Shigematsu)
Chapter 35 Work: Feminist Challenges to the Employment System and the Underlying Gender Division of Labor (Yamada Kazuyo)
Appendix 1: Japanese Laws and Policy Plans
Appendix 2: Exhibitions on Feminist Art and Women Artists
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