Women and Democracy in Cold War Japan

Women and Democracy in Cold War Japan
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Publisher : A&C Black
Total Pages : 257
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ISBN-10 : 9781472533814
ISBN-13 : 147253381X
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Book Synopsis Women and Democracy in Cold War Japan by : Jan Bardsley

Download or read book Women and Democracy in Cold War Japan written by Jan Bardsley and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-06-19 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women and Democracy in Cold War Japan offers a fresh perspective on gender politics by focusing on the Japanese housewife of the 1950s as a controversial representation of democracy, leisure, and domesticity. Examining the shifting personae of the housewife, especially in the appealing texts of women's magazines, reveals the diverse possibilities of postwar democracy as they were embedded in media directed toward Japanese women. Each chapter explores the contours of a single controversy, including debate over the royal wedding in 1959, the victory of Japan's first Miss Universe, and the unruly desires of postwar women. Jan Bardsley also takes a comparative look at the ways in which the Japanese housewife is measured against equally stereotyped notions of the modern housewife in the United States, asking how both function as narratives of Japan-U.S. relations and gender/class containment during the early Cold War.


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