Barbara Molony

Biographic Data

ID3686356
NAMEBarbara Molony
GIVEN NAMESBarbara
FAMILY NAMEMolony
SIGNATUREMOLONY B
AFFILIATIONSSanta Clara University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS29
TOTAL CITATIONS21
AUTHOR COUNT26
EDITOR COUNT3
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1983
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX3

  • Gendering modern Japanese history

    Barbara MolonyCHAPTERRoutledge Companion to Gender and…2019

    This chapter builds on the “Introduction” to Gendering Modern Japanese History (Molony and Uno 2005). The essays in that volume and the co-editors’ introductory analysis of the state of the field focused on two major issues—the imbrication of gender and modernity and the challenge of “gendering” (by which we meant gendered analysis) to dominant historical narratives, a major goal of feminist historiography frequently articulated at that time. Tho…

  • Gender in Modern East Asia: An Integrated History

    Barbara Molony, Janet Theiss et al.BOOKGender in Modern East Asia2018

    Gender in Modern East Asia explores the history of women and gender in China, Korea, and Japan from the seventeenth century to the present. This unique volume treats the three countries separately within each time period while also placing them in global and regional contexts. Its transnational and integrated approach connects the cultural, economic, and social developments in East Asia to what is happening across the wider world. The text focuse…

  • Women’s Activism and “Second Wave” Feminism: Transnational Histories

    Open AccessBarbara Molony, Jennifer NelsonBOOKWomen’s Activism and "Second…2017

    Women’s Activism and “Second Wave” Feminism situates late 20th century feminisms within a global framework of women’s activism. Its chapters, written by leading international scholars, demonstrate how issues of heterogeneity, transnationalism, and intersectionality have transformed understandings of historical feminism. It is no longer possible to imagine that feminism has ever fostered an unproblematic sisterhood among women blind to race, ethni…

  • From "Mothers of Humanity" to "Assisting the Emperor: Gendered Belonging in the Wartime Rhetoric of Japanese Feminist Ichikawa Fusae

    Barbara MolonyARTICLEPacific Historical Review2011

    Ichikawa Fusae, like other Japanese feminists from the 1920s through the 1940s, faced a dilemma as Japan pursued an increasingly aggressive foreign policy, first in Asia and later toward Western nations. A founder of the Women's Suffrage League who shared the gender-neutral beliefs of a transnational group of feminists, Ichikawa initially rejected the notion that women deserved the vote because of their status as mothers but eventually adopted th…

  • Pedagogy of Democracy: Feminism and the Cold War in the U.S. Occupation of Japan

    Barbara MolonyARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…2010

  • Asia's New Mothers: Crafting gender roles and childcare networks in East and Southeast Asian societies

    Emiko Ochiai, Barbara MolonyBOOKAsia's New Mothers2008

    [Through a focus on childcare, this offers a comparative regional analysis unique in English-language sources of changing gender roles in Asia. Taking into consideration the historical and cultural differences and similarities among the societies in the region, the authors employ indepth researches of people’s everyday experiences., Through a focus on childcare, this offers a comparative regional analysis unique in English-language sources of cha…

  • Asia's New Mothers: Crafting Gender Roles and Childcare Networks In East and Southeast Asian Societies

    Barbara Molony, Emiko OchiaiBOOKAsia's New Mothers2008

  • Asia's New Mothers: Crafting gender roles and childcare networks in East and Southeast Asian societies

    Emiko Ochiai, Barbara MolonyBOOKAsia's New Mothers2008

    Preface List of Contributors List of plates 1 Researching gender and childcare in contemporary Asia 2 Gender roles and childcare networks in east and southeast Asian societies 3 A comparative study of childcare and motherhood in South Korea and Japan 4 Korean Women's life courses and self perceptions: Isomorphism of centeredness 5 Housewifization and changes in Women's life course in Bangkok 6 Modern population trends, M-curve labor-force partici…

  • Gendering Modern Japanese History

    Open AccessBarbara Molony, Kathleen UnoBOOKGendering Modern Japanese History2005

    "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 …

  • Equality versus difference: The Japanese debate over ‘motherhood protection’, 1915–50

    Barbara MolonyCHAPTERJapanese Women Working2003

    The phrase ‘motherhood protection’ (and its related but subtle variants, ‘protection of the mother’s body’, ‘mother-child protection’, and ‘motherhood security’) has had multiple meanings. Both ‘motherhood’ and ‘protection’ have been understood in differing ways, and the combination of these two words in various contexts and by variously interested individuals has produced a dynamic discursive environment for ‘motherhood protection’. ‘Motherhood’…

  • Minamata: Pollution and the Struggle for Democracy in Postwar Japan (review)

    Barbara MolonyARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2003

    Minamata, a fishing town transformed in the early twentieth century by the development of Nitchitsu—a major chemical company renamed Shin Nitchitsu after World War II—came to symbolize the evils of industrial pollution by the 1960s and 1970s. Scores of residents were killed or severely incapacitated due to mercury poisoning caused by eating fish tainted by the organic mercury dumped with Shin Nitchitsu's wastewater into Minamata Bay. The horrors …

  • Schreiben als Befreiung: Autobiographische Romane und Erzählungen von Autorinnen der Proletarischen Literaturbewegung Japans

    Barbara Molony, Hilaria GössmannARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies2001

  • Women's Rights, Feminism, and Suffragism in Japan, 1870-1925

    Barbara MolonyARTICLEPacific Historical Review2000Cited by: 3References: 8

    Research Article| November 01 2000 Women's Rights, Feminism, and Suffragism in Japan, 1870-1925 Barbara Molony Barbara Molony Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (2000) 69 (4): 639–661. https://doi.org/10.2307/3641228 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Perm…

  • Creating Socialist Women in Japan: Gender, Labour and Activism 1900-1937

    Barbara Molony, Mackie et al.ARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica1998Cited by: 10

    1. Introduction 2. Imperial subjects 3. Wives 4. Mothers 5. Workers 6. Activists 7. Creating socialist women 1903-37

  • A New Woman of Japan: A Political Biography of Kato Shidzue

    Barbara Molony, Helen M HopperARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies1997

  • Textiles and Industrial Transition in Japan

    Barbara Molony, Dennis L McnamaraARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica1996Cited by: 1

  • Technology Change and Female Labour in Japan

    Barbara Molony, Masanori NakamuraARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies1995

  • Japan's 1986 Equal Employment Opportunity Law and the Changing Discourse on Gender

    Barbara MolonyARTICLESigns: Journal of Women in…1995Cited by: 7

    She stands on a commuter train platform in a dressed-for- success business suit, her feet apart in a decidedly undemure pose, with a large briefcase resting at her side. She gulps the highpotency vitamin concoction marketed to legions of businessmen, hung over from the previous evening's obligatory night out with the boys. But for her skirt and high heels, she could be one of the boys (fig. 1). Her gestures, her dress, and her office destination …

  • Onna da kara, Weil ich eine Frau bin: Liebe, Ehe und Sexualitat in Japan

    Barbara Molony, Ruth Linhart et al.ARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies1994

  • The Prison Memoirs of a Japanese Woman

    Barbara Molony, Kaneko Fumiko et al.ARTICLEPacific Affairs1993

  • Technology and Investment: The Prewar Japanese Chemical Industry

    Hashimoto Juro, Juro Hashimoto et al.ARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies1992

  • Factory Girls: Women in the Thread Mills of Meiji Japan

    Barbara Molony, E Patricia TsurumiARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies1991

  • The Japanese Business Community and National Trade Policy, 1920-1942

    Barbara Molony, William Miles Fletcher IiiARTICLEPacific Affairs1991

  • Nakae Ushikichi in China: The Mourning of Spirit

    Barbara Molony, Joshua A FogelARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica1990

    In 1914, Nakeae Ushikichi (1889-1942), gifted son of the famous Nakae Ch min (1847-1901) and graduate of Tokyo University's Faculty of Law, left behind the opportunities open to him in Japan and went to China. He worked briefly for the South Manchurian Railway and then in the Yuan Shih-k'ai government, but a personal crisis in 1919 turned him suddenly to a life of rigorous scholarship and social criticism. He spent most of his adult life in Pekin…

  • The Retreat from Diversification and the Desire for Specialization in Konoike: Late Meiji to Early Showa

    Open AccessMatao Miyamoto, Kensuke Hiroyama et al.ARTICLEJapanese Yearbook on Business…1985