Defeated Nation and Contested Womanhood

The Impact of the U.S. Occupation on the Reconstruction of National Identity in Postwar Japan
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-72459-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Gendering the Trans-Pacific World

This book investigates the impact of the U.S. occupation of Japan on the discursive remaking of Japanese womanhood. While exploring historical dynamics of Japanese femininity, it focuses on the context of the occupation in which meanings of gender, sexuality, race, and social class became particularly fluid.
Drawing on insights from studies of gender, sexuality, race, and nation, Masako Endo considers how the occupation overtly sexualized and situationally or essentially racialized certain groups of people. She argues that they, by challenging traditional Japanese gender roles and sexual mores, shaped national discourses of Japanese womanhood and nationhood in occupied and post-occupation Japan.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Endo, Masako

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Über Autor(innen)

Masako Endo is a sociologist who received her Ph.D. from Binghamton University-State University of New York. Curently, she is a faculty member in the Department of Sociology at Drexel University.