Gendering Modern Japanese History - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0674017803 ISBN 13 : 9780674017801

Editeur : Harvard University, Asia Center, 2005

Synopsis

In the past quarter-century, gender has emerged as a lively area of inquiry for historians and other scholars, and gender analysis has suggested important revisions of the "master narratives" of national histories--the dominant, often celebratory tales of the successes of a nation and its leaders. Although modern Japanese history has not yet been restructured by a foregrounding of gender, historians of Japan have begun to embrace gender as an analytic category.

The sixteen chapters in this volume treat men as well as women, theories of sexuality as well as gender prescriptions, and same-sex as well as heterosexual relations in the period from 1868 to the present. All of them take the position that history is gendered; that is, historians invariably, perhaps unconsciously, construct a gendered notion of past events, people, and ideas. Together, these essays construct a history informed by the idea that gender matters because it was part of the experience of people and because it often has been a central feature in the construction of modern ideologies, discourses, and institutions. Separately, each chapter examines how Japanese have (en)gendered their ideas, institutions, and society.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Barbara Molony is Professor of History at Santa Clara University.

Kathleen Uno is Associate Professor of History at Temple University.

Andrew Gordon is Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harvard University, Asia Center
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0674017803
• ISBN 13: 9780674017801
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 632
• Éditeur: Molony Barbara, Uno Kathleen
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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