Asia
Women's Bodies, Women's Minds: One Way of Rethinking Japanese Women's History
By , University of California, Irvine (September 2004)
Sections: Asia
Subjects: History, Women's History, Gender History .
Places: Asia, Eastern Asia.
Periods: 1000 - 1999, 1800-1899, 1900-1999.
Abstract
We live in a world permeated with violence, yet until recently the field of Japanese studies has not focused on the connection between violence, gender, and modernity. The goal of this article is to suggest ways in which violence and gender figure in conspicuous consumption and the construction of the modern state.
DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2004.00079.x
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