Gendering modern Japanese history

Bibliographic Data

ID20051613
AuthorsBarbara Molony (corresponding author)
Year2019
Pages11-21
Publication date2019-12-06
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueRoutledge Companion to Gender and Japanese Culture (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781315179582-2
OpenAlexW1526286872
ISBN9781315179582
LanguageEN
Citations received19
References cited1

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. Those two major foci have been addressed in numerous fine works published after Gendering Modern Japanese History. They have also been joined by numerous other categories of analysis discussed in this chapter, including gendered modernities in artistic and material cultures, consumption, sexualities and reproduction, sex and the empire, and family structures. This historiographical essay also examines exciting trends in masculinity, LGBTQ, and diaspora and migration studies. It discusses the refocusing of scholarly approaches in economic, legal, and diplomatic histories through the lens of gender. In addition, it shows how other paradigms that are central to feminist scholarship globally, such as transnationalism and intersectionality, have come to play a part in the historiography of Japanese gender analysis

Chinese history and philosophy · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · History · Japanese History and Culture

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