Elise K Tipton

Biographic Data

ID542453
NAMEElise K Tipton
GIVEN NAMESElise K
FAMILY NAMETipton
SIGNATURETIPTON E K
AFFILIATIONSThe University of Sydney
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS24
TOTAL CITATIONS23
AUTHOR COUNT22
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1982
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
H-INDEX3

  • Hiromu Nagahara. Tokyo Boogie-Woogie: Japan’s Pop Era and Its Discontents

    Open AccessElise K TiptonARTICLEThe American Historical Review2018

    By referencing the 1947 hit song in the title of his book, Tokyo Boogie-Woogie: Japan’s Pop Era and Its Discontents, Hiromu Nagahara suggests that his topic is the Americanization of Japan’s popular music culture during the post–World War II years. But this is actually a history of Japan’s modern popular-song industry that connects it to the origins of mass culture in the 1920s. Nagahara’s book thus makes a significant contribution to the cultura…

  • Louise Young, Beyond the Metropolis: Second Cities and Modern Life in Interwar Japan

    Elise K TiptonARTICLEJapanese Studies2014

    When historians have written about modernity in Japan during the interwar period their focus has predominantly been on Tokyo. One good reason is that writers and social commentators of the time the

  • Faces of New Tokyo: Entertainment Districts and Everyday Life during the Interwar Years

    Elise K TiptonARTICLEJapanese Studies2013Cited by: 2References: 4

    This study focuses on a comparison of the three most popular sakariba (entertainment districts) in Tokyo of the late 1920s and 1930s to highlight the new role of leisure in everyday life as Japan industrialized and urbanized. The comparison of Asakusa, Ginza and Shinjuku shows that even as Japan became a mass society, leisure practices and patterns became stratified and diversified. This stratification and diversification reflected class, age and…

  • The Department Store: Producing Modernity in Interwar Japan

    Elise K TiptonCHAPTERRethinking Japanese Modernism2012

    This chapter begins with two quotations from feminist works on women and modernity to point to the object of analysis in this chapter, namely, department stores. The first is from Meaghan Morris's 'Things to Do with Shopping Centres'. The second, from Rita Felsky's The Gender of Modernity , similarly expresses concern with the everyday and the mundane to expand our understanding of modernity as it shaped the lives of the non-elite and especially …

  • Manners and Mischief: Gender, Power, and Etiquette in Japan

    Elise K TiptonARTICLEAsian Studies Review2012Cited by: 1

    JAN BARDSLEY and LAURA MILLER (eds). Manners and Mischief: Gender, Power, and Etiquette in Japan . Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2011. 284 pp. US$25.00, paper. J

  • How to Manage a Household: Creating Middle Class Housewives in Modern Japan

    Elise K TiptonARTICLEJapanese Studies2009Cited by: 2References: 5

    During the late 1910s to early 1920s leaders in women's education sought to rationalize and modernize daily life through the promotion of ‘domestic science’. Their writings, aimed at young educated middle class women, focused on ways to reform the running of their households to fit their changing roles as modern women and the changing conditions of Japanese society more generally. They assumed the sexual division of labour, but as reformers, they…

  • Modern Japan: A Social and Political History

    Elise Tipton, Elise K TiptonBOOKModern Japan2008

    This thoroughly updated second edition of Modern Japan provides a concise and fascinating introduction to the social, cultural and political history of modern Japan. Ranging from the Tokugawa period to the present day, the book charts the country's evolution into a modernized, economic and political world power. Dealing with a broad and stimulating range of topics in an engaging style that will appeal to university students and the general reader…

  • Defining the poor in early twentieth-century Japan

    Elise K TiptonARTICLEJapan Forum2008References: 9

    The Japanese government introduced new social welfare policies and institutions during the late 1910s and 1920s that acknowledged the growing significance of the ‘social question’ in Japan and seemingly recognized that social and economic structures were responsible for an increasing number of urban poor. However, a moralistic approach to the solution of poverty remained prominent, which aimed at ‘guiding’ and ‘correcting’ poor families' behaviou…

  • Cleansing the Nation: Urban Entertainments and Moral Reform in Interwar Japan

    Open AccessElise K TiptonARTICLEModern Asian Studies2008Cited by: 2

    This article focuses on Japanese government restrictions and regulation of urban entertainments during the 1920s and 1930s as examples of attempts to rectify what was perceived as the declining morals of a modernizing, industrializing Japanese society. In this respect it adds another dimension to depictions of the Second World War as opposition to the cultural as well as political hegemony of the major Western powers. However, although war no dou…

  • Society and the State in Interwar Japan

    Elise K TiptonBOOKSociety and the State in Interwar…2002

    The social history of Japan between the First and Second World Wars is a neglected area of study. The contributors to this volume consider factors such as nationalism, class, gender and race. They also explore the ideas and activities of a number of new social and political groups, such as the urban white collar class (including middle class working women), socialists, industrial workers and emigrants. The book questions the myth of Japanese homo…

  • The 2001 Biennial Conference of the Japanese Studies Association of Australia in Sydney

    Chihiro Kinoshita Thomson, Elise K TiptonARTICLEJapanese Studies2002

  • Japanese Studies in Australia, 2002

    Elise K TiptonARTICLEJapanese Studies2002Cited by: 1References: 1

  • Being Modern in Japan: Culture and Society from the 1910s to the 1930s

    Elise K Tipton, John A Clark et al.ARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies2002

  • Being Modern in Japan: Culture and Society from the 1910s to the 1930s

    Julia Adeney Thomas, Elise K Tipton et al.ARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica2001Cited by: 6

  • The Police in Occupation Japan: Control, Corruption and Resistance to Reform

    Elise K Tipton, Christopher AldousARTICLEPacific Affairs1999

    Many Western commentators have expressed their admiration for the Japanese police system, tracing its origins to the American Occupation of Japan (1945-52). This study challenges the assumptions that underlie these accounts, focusing on the problems that attended the reform of the Japanese police during the Occupation. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, Christopher Aldous explores the extent to which America failed in it's goal of 'democ…

  • Society and State in Interwar Japan

    W Miles Fletcher, W Miles Fletcher III et al.ARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica1998Cited by: 2

  • Society and the state in interwar Japan

    Elise K TiptonBOOKSociety and the state in interwar…1997

  • Ishimoto shizue: The margaret sanger of Japan

    Elise K Tipton, Elise TiptonARTICLEWomen s History Review1997References: 2

    Post-1945 Japan is known for its remarkably low birth rate and a heavy reliance on abortion for birth control purposes. What may be less well known is the extensive use of contraceptive methods as well to limit or regulate births and the role played by the prewar birth control movement in making the concept of birth control socially acceptable. The prewar movement owed its origins and much of its success in changing attitudes toward birth control…

  • Birth control and the population problem in prewar and wartime Japan

    Elise K TiptonARTICLEJapanese Studies1994Cited by: 3References: 3

  • The birth‐control movement in pre‐1945 Japan

    Elise K TiptonARTICLEAsian Studies Review1994Cited by: 1References: 2

  • Janus-Faced Justice: Political Criminals in Imperial Japan

    P G Steinhoff, Richard Mitchell et al.ARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies1993

  • The Japanese Police State: The Tokko in Interwar Japan

    Richard Mitchell, Richard H Mitchell et al.ARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica1991Cited by: 3

  • Readings” in Japanese history and philosophy: Issues in methodology

    Elise K TiptonARTICLEAsian Studies Review1990References: 5

    H. D. Harootunian. Things Seen and Unseen: Discourse and Ideology in Tokugawa Nativism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988. Pp. 488. US$$40.00, cloth; US$14.95, paper

  • Organized Workers and Socialist Politics in Interwar Japan

    Elise K Tipton, Stephen S Large et al.ARTICLEThe American Historical Review1982