Full Description
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, Uman 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.
Contents
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 Vittinghof)
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 Uman 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: Japanese Laws and Policy Plans
