Gender, Nation and State in Modern Japan [Hardcover]

Gender, Nation and State in Modern Japanmakes a unique contribution to the international literature on the formation of modern nationstates in its focus on the gendering of the modern Japanese nation-state from the late nineteenth century to the present. References to gender relations are deeply embedded in the historical concepts of nation and nationalism, and in the related symbols, metaphors and arguments. Moreover, the development of the binary opposition between masculinity and femininity and the development of the modern nation-state are processes which occurred simultaneously. They were the product of a shift from a stratified, hereditary class society to a functionally-differentiated social body. This volume includes the work of an international group of scholars from Japan, the United States, Australia and Germany, which in many cases appears in English for the first time. It provides an interdisciplinary perspective on the formation of the modern Japanese nationstate, including comparative perspectives from research on the formation of the modern nationstate in Europe, thus bringing research on Japan into a transnational dialogue. This volume will be of interest in the fields of modern Japanese history, gender studies, political science and comparative studies of nationalism.

1. Introduction: Gender, Nation and State in Modern Japan Andrea Germer, Vera Mackie and Ulrike W?hr  2. The Formation of Modern Imperial Japan from the Perspective of Gender Hayakawa Noriyo  3. Narratives of Heroism in Meiji Japan: Nationalism, Gender and Impersonation Jason G. Karlin  4. The Nexus of Nation, Culture and Gender in Modern Japan: The Resistance of Kanno Sugako and Kaneko Fumiko Mae Michiko  5. Domestic Roles and the Incorporation of Women into the Nation State: The Emergence and Development of the Good Wife, Wise Mother Ideology Koyama l£#