04080nam 2200565 c 450 991098467000332120251117114306.09781503637016150363701810.1515/9781503637016(MiAaPQ)EBC30606132(Au-PeEL)EBL30606132(DE-B1597)666670(DE-B1597)9781503637016(CKB)27195930300041(Perlego)4213561(EXLCZ)992719593030004120230821d2023 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierWombs of empirepopulation discourses and biopolitics in modern Japan /Sujin Lee1st ed.Stanford, CaliforniaStanford University Press[2023]©20231 online resource (262 pages)Print version: Lee, Sujin Wombs of Empire Redwood City : Stanford University Press,c2023 9781503637009 Includes bibliographical references and index.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Romanization and Names -- Introduction. Population: A Discursive Site of En-gendering Life -- One. The Population Problem and Utopian Remedies -- Two. Voluntary Motherhood: The Feminist Politics of Birth Control -- Three. Scientific and Imperialist Solutions to Overpopulation -- Four. Building a Biopolitical State: The Mobilization of Health for Total War -- Five. "Fertile Womb Battalion": The Gender and Racial Politics of Motherhood -- Epilogue. The Continued Politics of the "Population Problem" -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index."Japan's contemporary struggle with low fertility rates is a well-known issue, as are the country's efforts to bolster their population in order to address attendant socio-economic challenges. However, though this anxiety about and discourse around population is thought of as relatively recent phenomenon, government and medical intervention in reproduction and fertility are hardly new in Japan. The "population problem (jinko mondai)" became a buzzword in the country over a century ago, in the 1910s, with a growing call among Japanese social scientists and social reformers to solve what were seen as existential demographic issues. In this book, Sujin Lee traces the trajectory of population discourses in Interwar and Wartime Japan, and positions them as a critical site where competing visions of modernity came into tension. Lee destabilizes the essentialized notions of motherhood and population by dissecting gender norms, modern knowledge, and government practices, each of which played a crucial role in valorizing, regulating, and mobilizing women's maternal bodies and responsibilities in the name of population governance. Bringing a feminist perspective and Foucauldian theory to bear on the history of Japan's wartime scientific fascism, Lee shows how anxieties over demographics have undergirded justifications for ethno-nationalism and racism, colonialism and imperialism, and gender segregation for much of Japan's modern history"--Provided by publisher.Fertility, HumanPolitical aspectsJapanHistory20th centuryBirth controlPolitical aspectsJapanHistory20th centuryMotherhoodPolitical aspectsJapanHistory20th centuryBiopoliticsJapanHistory20th centuryJapanPopulation policyFertility, HumanPolitical aspectsHistoryBirth controlPolitical aspectsHistoryMotherhoodPolitical aspectsHistoryBiopoliticsHistory304.6320952Lee Sujin(Professor of Pacific and Asia studies),1793406MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910984670003321Wombs of empire4333101UNINA