Women And Democracy In Cold War Japan

Author : Jan Bardsley
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472533814

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Women and Democracy in Cold War Japan by Jan Bardsley Pdf

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.

Author : Mire Koikari
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781592137015

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Pedagogy of Democracy by Mire Koikari Pdf

This book argues that postwar gender reform was part of the Cold War containment strategies that eroded rather than promoted women's political and economic rights. It suggests that American and Japanese women leaders both participated in as well as resisted the ruling dynamics of race, gender, class, sexuality, and nation. Compares and contrasts imperial feminism of both the 19th and 20th centuries.

Author : Jennifer M. Miller
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674240025

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Cold War Democracy by Jennifer M. Miller Pdf

During the occupation American policymakers identified elections and education as the wellsprings of a democratic consciousness in Japan. But as the extent of Japan’s economic recovery became clear, they placed prosperity at the core of a revised vision for their new ally’s future, as Jennifer Miller shows in this fresh appraisal of the Cold War.

Author : Mire Koikari
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107079502

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Cold War Encounters in US-Occupied Okinawa by Mire Koikari Pdf

This book examines roles of gender, race and nation in the geopolitics of Cold War East Asia on the Island of Okinawa.

Author : Robert E. Ward,Yoshikazu Sakamoto
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824880729

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Democratizing Japan by Robert E. Ward,Yoshikazu Sakamoto Pdf

The value of this book resides in the interweaving of Japanese and American scholarship and viewpoints on a number of aspects of the total Occupation experience that are of critical importance to a historical explanation of its accomplishments or shortfalls. Attention is given to the new constitution of 1946-1947, the most fundamental institutional change wrought by the Occupation's major programs of institutional and procedural reform and the formation and early development of the conservative and reformist parties.

Author : Jan Bardsley
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472525666

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Women and Democracy in Cold War Japan by Jan Bardsley Pdf

Author : Chizuru Saeki
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 0773452494

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U.S. Cultural Propaganda in Cold War Japan by Chizuru Saeki Pdf

This study examines the efforts of the United States government and affiliated non-governmental organizations to build pro-American sentiments in Japan during a critical decade in Japanese-American relations.

Author : Patrick Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1999-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0517397056

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Japan by Patrick Smith Pdf

Current Affairs/Asian Studies Winner of the Overseas Press Club Award for the best book on Foreign Affairs A New York Times Notable Book of the year "A stimulating, provocative book . . . fresh and valuable." --The New York Times Book Review In 1868, Japan abruptly transformed itself from a feudal society into a modern industrial state. In 1945, the Japanese switched just as swiftly from imperialism and emperor-worship to a democracy. Today, argues Patrick Smith, Japan is in the midst of equally sudden and important change. In this award-winning book, Smith offers a groundbreaking framework for understanding the Japan of the next millennium. This time, Smith asserts, Japan's transformation is one of consciousness--a reconception by the Japanese of their country and themselves. Drawing on the voices of Japanese artists, educators, leaders, and ordinary citizens, Smith reveals a "hidden history" that challenges the West's focus on Japan as a successfully modernized country. And it is through this unacknowledged history that he shows why the Japanese live in a dysfunctional system that marginalizes women, dissidents, and indigenous peoples; why the "corporate warrior" is a myth; and why the presence of 47,000 American troops persists as a holdover from a previous era. The future of Japan, Smit suggests, lies in its citizens' ability to create new identities and possibilities for themselves--so creating a nation where individual rights matter as much as collective economic success. Authoritative, rich in detail, Japan: A Re interpretation is our first post-Cold War account of the Japanese and a timely guide to a society whose transformation will have a profoundimpact on the rest of the world in the coming years. "Excellent . . . a penetrating examination." --International Herald Tribune "From the Trade Paperback edition."

Author : John W. Dower
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393345247

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Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower Pdf

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the 1999 National Book Award for Nonfiction, finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, Embracing Defeat is John W. Dower's brilliant examination of Japan in the immediate, shattering aftermath of World War II. Drawing on a vast range of Japanese sources and illustrated with dozens of astonishing documentary photographs, Embracing Defeat is the fullest and most important history of the more than six years of American occupation, which affected every level of Japanese society, often in ways neither side could anticipate. Dower, whom Stephen E. Ambrose has called "America's foremost historian of the Second World War in the Pacific," gives us the rich and turbulent interplay between West and East, the victor and the vanquished, in a way never before attempted, from top-level manipulations concerning the fate of Emperor Hirohito to the hopes and fears of men and women in every walk of life. Already regarded as the benchmark in its field, Embracing Defeat is a work of colossal scholarship and history of the very first order. John W. Dower is the Elting E. Morison Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for War Without Mercy.

Author : Ayako Kano
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824855833

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Japanese Feminist Debates by Ayako Kano Pdf

Recent years have seen a surge of interest in Japanese feminism and gender history. This new volume brings to light Japan's feminist public sphere, a discursive space in which academic, journalistic, and political voices have long met and sparred over issues that remain controversial to the present day: prostitution, pornography, reproductive rights, the balance between motherhood and paid work, relationships between individual, family, and state. Japanese Feminist Debates: A Century of Contention on Sex, Love, and Labor contributes to this discussion in a number of unique ways. The book is organized around intellectually and politically charged debates, including important recent developments in state feminism and the conservative backlash against it, spearheaded by the current prime minister, Abe Shinzō. Focusing on essential questions that have yet to be resolved, Ayako Kano traces the emergence and development of these controversies in relation to social, cultural, intellectual, and political history. Her focus on the " rondan"—the Japanese intellectual public sphere—allows her to show how disputes taking place therein interacted with both popular culture and policy making. Kano argues that these feminist debates explain an important paradox: why Japan is such a highly developed modern nation yet ranks dismally low in gender equality. Part of the answer lies in the contested definitions of gender equality and women's liberation, and this book traces these contentions over the course of modern Japanese history. It also situates these debates in relation to modern Japanese social policy and comparative discussions about welfare regimes. By covering an entire century, Japanese Feminist Debates is able to trace the origins and development of feminist consciousness from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Based on over a decade of research, this wide-ranging, lively, up-to-date book will both spark discussion among specialists grappling with long-enduring subjects of intellectual debate and animate undergraduate and graduate classrooms on modern Japanese women's history and gender studies.

Author : Mikiko Eto
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000283204

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Women and Political Inequality in Japan by Mikiko Eto Pdf

Why are there so few Japanese women involved in the political system? In 2019, Japanese women made up 10% of the national Lower House, 21% of the Upper House, and 14% of local assemblies. According to the Inter-Parliamentary Union, this places Japan 164th out of 193 countries when it comes to women’s representation in the legislature. The percentage of women in the Lower House has only increased by fewer than two percentage points since women gained full suffrage and the right to stand for election in Japan in 1946. Eto analyses the various factors that have led to women’s low presence in the Japanese legislature. She evaluates ways in which it might be possible for Japan to catch up and, in doing so, examines how Japanese society continues to perpetuate gender-rigid expectations of people. This text is a valuable study for scholars of Japanese politics and society, and for readers with an interest in the broader issue of the representation of women in politics.

Author : Larry Diamond,David Kramer,Yasunobu Sato,Tsuneo Akaha,David Steinberg,Aung Din,Mistugi Endo,Richard Kraemer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0996656766

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U. S. Japan Approaches to Democracy Promotion by Larry Diamond,David Kramer,Yasunobu Sato,Tsuneo Akaha,David Steinberg,Aung Din,Mistugi Endo,Richard Kraemer Pdf

Recommends practical ways in which the United States and Japan can support democratic development in countries that are emerging from autocratic regimes and those that have achieved a measure of democracy, but are in danger of regressing.

Author : Tanya L. Roth
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469664446

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Her Cold War by Tanya L. Roth Pdf

While Rosie the Riveter had fewer paid employment options after being told to cede her job to returning World War II veterans, her sisters and daughters found new work opportunities in national defense. The 1948 Women's Armed Services Integration Act created permanent military positions for women with the promise of equal pay. Her Cold War follows the experiences of women in the military from the passage of the Act to the early 1980s. In the late 1940s, defense officials structured women's military roles on the basis of perceived gender differences. Classified as noncombatants, servicewomen filled roles that they might hold in civilian life, such as secretarial or medical support positions. Defense officials also prohibited pregnant women and mothers from remaining in the military and encouraged many women to leave upon marriage. Before civilian feminists took up similar issues in the 1970s, many servicewomen called for a broader definition of equality free of gender-based service restrictions. Tanya L. Roth shows us that the battles these servicewomen fought for equality paved the way for women in combat, a prerequisite for promotion to many leadership positions, and opened opportunities for other servicepeople, including those with disabilities, LGBT and gender nonconforming people, noncitizens, and more.

Author : Francis Fukuyama
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781416531784

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End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama Pdf

Ever since its first publication in 1992, The End of History and the Last Man has provoked controversy and debate. Francis Fukuyama's prescient analysis of religious fundamentalism, politics, scientific progress, ethical codes, and war is as essential for a world fighting fundamentalist terrorists as it was for the end of the Cold War. Now updated with a new afterword, The End of History and the Last Man is a modern classic.

Author : Peter N. Stearns
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780252095153

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Demilitarization in the Contemporary World by Peter N. Stearns Pdf

Contemporary world history has highlighted militarization in many ways, from the global Cold War and numerous regional conflicts to the general assumption that nationhood implies a significant and growing military. Yet the twentieth century also offers notable examples of large-scale demilitarization, both imposed and voluntary. Demilitarization in the Contemporary World fills a key gap in current historical understanding by examining demilitarization programs in Germany, Japan, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Costa Rica. Contributors investigate factors such as military defeat, border security risks, economic pressures, and the development of strong peace cultures among citizenry. Exemplifying the political difficulties of demilitarization in both its failures and successes, Demilitarization in the Contemporary World provides a possible roadmap for future policies and practices.