Download or read book Gendering Modern Japanese History written by Barbara Molony and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixteen chapters in this volume treat men as well as women, theories of sexuality as well as gender prescriptions, and same-sex as well as heterosexual relations in the period from 1868 to the present. Together, these essays construct a history informed by the idea that gender matters because it was part of the experience of people and because it often has been a central feature in the construction of modern ideologies, discourses, and institutions. Separately, each chapter examines how Japanese have (en)gendered their ideas, institutions, and society.