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TITLE: Rising Suns, Rising Daughters - Gender, Class and Power in Japan

AUTHORS Joanna Liddle, University of Warwick, and Sachiko Nakajima

ISBN/PRICE:
1 85649 878 6 hbk GBP55.00/US$75.00
1 85649 879 4 pbk GBP16.95/US$27.50

FEATURES: Notes/Bibliography/Index/352 pp COURSE RELEVANCE: Women's Studies/Asian Studies TERRITORIAL RESTRICTIONS: The Zed edition of this title is not available for sale in Thailand. Customers in Thailand should contact White Lotus.

KEY POINTS

+ An important addition to the very few books available in English on Japanese women

+ Introduces an original conceptual framework for the study of gender, class and global politics

+ Fascinating historical and in-depth interview material for students and the general reader

ABOUT THE BOOK

This book traces the changing position of Japanese women through significant moments of history and into the contemporary period. It repudiates the commonly held view of the submissive Japanese woman, and shows how women have been active agents in constructing new identities both in family and public life. The energy of the women's liberation movement of the late twentieth century resonates with echoes of struggle and resistance from earlier times. The authors show how gender relations are crucially related to the construction of class and are used as a resource in the struggle for power between nations. The contemporary material is based on detailed interviews, conducted over two decades, with women who have challenged the stereotypes normally attached to Japanese women and attained positions of influence in professional life. The powerful and moving stories bring into focus the broader movements of history and culture within the experiences of individual women.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Joanna Liddle lectures at the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender at the University of Warwick. She has done international collaborative research on the problems encountered by professional women in several countries and is the co-author of Daughters of Independence (Zed Books, 1986). Sachiko Nakajima formerly worked with the National Personnel Authority in Japan.

CONTENTS

Preface

Introduction

The Idea

The Women

The Fieldwork

The Objectives

The Book

1. The Women's Movement

Gender Politics in the New Heisei Era

The 'Second Wave' Women's Movement

The 'First Wave' Women's Movement

2. Japan Enters Global Politics

Japan's Resistance to Western Imperialism Maintaining Class Power at Home

Resisting Subordination Abroad

Japanese Imperialism: Joining the Elite

Competing with the West

3. Women and the Subordination of Japan

Gender, Class and the Struggle for Global Power Japan's Weakness and the Woman Question

Motives of the Male Reformers

4. Creating a New Japanese Womanhood

Extending Control over Women in the Family Education for Women

Excluding Women from Politics

5. Building a New Japan: Good Wives, Wise Mothers Women's Contribution to the National Wealth

Women's Contribution to Military Strength

6. Building a New Japan: Working Women

Going Out to Work: Factory Girls

Going Out to Work: Prostitutes

Gender and Global Distinction

7. The Bases of Power

8.Women and Class

Gender, Class and Feudalism

Women's Disinheritance

9. The Rise of the Military Class

The Struggle for Power

Family Forms

Land Inheritance

10. Civil War

Formation of the Social Classes after the 14th Century

11. Women's Position and Social Class

Consolidating Women's Subordination in the Military Class

Women of the Lower Classes: Peasant Women

Women of the Lower Classes: Merchant Women

Gender, Class and Power before the Western Intrusions

12. The New Woman

Movements for Change, Spaces for Opposition Middle-Class Women 'going out to work'

'A Field of Struggles'

13. Militarist Expansionism

The Colonies - 'Civilisation and Enlightenment' War: Repression and Opportunity

Contradictory Gendering

14. Defeat of the Militarist Project

Material Loss and Social Absence

Progressive Discourse

Erosion of Authority Systems

Taking Advantage of Change

15. The American Occupation

The Occupation Reforms

The Approach of the US Occupation to Women Women and the Reforms

Constant Quiet Struggles

16. Class and the Reproduction of Power

The Significance of Class in Japan

Analysing Power

17. Employment as a Field of Power

Women's Positioning in the Employment Field

Women's Participation in the Employment

Field Power Distribution in the Employment Field

Employment Position and Social Class

Gender and Class Origin

Class Origins and Women's Access to Power in the Employment Field

18. Education as a Field of Power

The Development of Education

Women's Positioning in the Education Field

Power Distribution in the Education Field

Education and Social Origin

Gender, Cultural Capital and Class Reproduction

Professional Women's Education

Class Origins and Access to Power in the Educational Field

19. The Family as a Field of Power

Women's Positioning in the Field of the Family

Biological and Class Reproduction

Power Distribution in the Field of the Family and the Connections between the Fields

20. Gendered Class Identities

21. Discourses of Gendered Class Identity Competing Discourses of Femininity

Competing Discourses of Masculinity

22. Regulatory Social Practices

Social Practices in Education

Social Practices in Employment

Social Practices in the Family

Reproducing Family and Class Distinction

23. Contradictions of Middle-Class Femininity

Contradictions in Education

Contradictions in Employment

Contradictions in the Family

24. Changing Subjectivities

25. Changing Social Practice

Establishing a Professional Career

Negotiating New Family Lifestyles

26. Changing Subjectivities

Supporting the Family

Developing a Mature Self

Contributing to Society

Being, and Failing to be, The Professional Housewife

Being a Working Woman

Different Worlds

27. Women in the New Heisei Era

Continuity and Change

Representing Women's Subjectivities

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