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Autore |
Koikari Mire <1965-> |
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Titolo |
Pedagogy of democracy [[electronic resource] ] : feminism and the Cold War in the U.S. occupation of Japan / / Mire Koikari |
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Philadelphia, PA, : Temple University Press, 2008 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-97324-6 |
1-59213-702-4 |
9786611973247 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (241 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Cold War |
Feminist theory |
Postcolonialism |
Women - Violence against - Japan - History |
Women - Japan - Social conditions |
Japan Foreign relations United States |
Japan History Allied occupation, 1945-1952 |
United States Foreign relations Japan |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: Recasting women in the US occupation of Japan -- Feminism, nationalism, and colonial genealogies : women's enfranchisement and constitutional revision -- Feminism, domestic containment, and Cold War citizenry -- Women, the Cold War, and the question of resistance -- Making the body respectable : Cold War containment and regulation of sexuality -- Conclusion. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Pedagogy of Democracy re-interprets the U.S. occupation of Japan from 1945 to 1952 as a problematic instance of Cold War feminist mobilization rather than a successful democratization of Japanese women as previously argued. By combining three fields of research-occupation, Cold War, and postcolonial feminist studies-and examining occupation records and other archival sources, Koikari argues that postwar gender reform was one of the Cold War containment strategies |
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