Women in Asia under the Japanese empire

"Contributors to this book provide an Asian women's history from the perspective of gender analysis, assessing Japanese imperial policy and propaganda in its colonies and occupied territories and particularly its impact on women. Tackling topics including media, travel, migration, literatu...

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Weitere Verfasser: Kageki, Tatsuya (HerausgeberIn), Yang, Jiajia (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: London ; New York, NY Routledge 2023
Schriftenreihe:Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia 179
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Zusammenfassung:"Contributors to this book provide an Asian women's history from the perspective of gender analysis, assessing Japanese imperial policy and propaganda in its colonies and occupied territories and particularly its impact on women. Tackling topics including media, travel, migration, literature, and the perceptions of the empire by the colonised, the authors present an eclectic history, unified by the perspective of gender studies and the spatial and political lens of the Japanese Empire. They look at the lives of women in Manchuria, Mainland China, Taiwan, Korea and Okinawa among others. These women were wives, mothers, writers, migrants, intellectuals and activists, and thus had a very broad range of views and experiences of Imperial Japan. Where women have tended in the past to be studies as objects of the imperial system, the contributors to this book study them as the subject of history, while also providing an outside-in perspective on the Japanese Empire by other Asians. A vital new perspective for scholars of Twentieth century history of East Asian countries and regions such as Japan, Korea, Okinawa, Taiwan, China"--
Beschreibung:x, 225 Seiten
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24 cm
ISBN:9781032247625
978-1-03-224762-5
9781032247649
978-1-03-224764-9