LEADER 04079nam 2200565 c 450 001 9910984670003321 005 20231107102933.0 010 $a9781503637016 010 $a1503637018 024 7 $a10.1515/9781503637016 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30606132 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30606132 035 $a(DE-B1597)666670 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781503637016 035 $a(CKB)27195930300041 035 $a(Perlego)4213561 035 $a(EXLCZ)9927195930300041 100 $a20230821d2023 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aWombs of empire$epopulation discourses and biopolitics in modern Japan /$fSujin Lee 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aStanford, California$cStanford University Press$d[2023] 210 4$dİ2023 215 $a1 online resource (262 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: Lee, Sujin Wombs of Empire Redwood City : Stanford University Press,c2023 9781503637009 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntro -- 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. 330 $a"Japan's contemporary struggle with low fertility rates is a well-known issue, as are the country's efforts to bolster their population in order to address attendant socio-economic challenges. However, though this anxiety about and discourse around population is thought of as relatively recent phenomenon, government and medical intervention in reproduction and fertility are hardly new in Japan. The "population problem (jinko mondai)" became a buzzword in the country over a century ago, in the 1910s, with a growing call among Japanese social scientists and social reformers to solve what were seen as existential demographic issues. In this book, Sujin Lee traces the trajectory of population discourses in Interwar and Wartime Japan, and positions them as a critical site where competing visions of modernity came into tension. Lee destabilizes the essentialized notions of motherhood and population by dissecting gender norms, modern knowledge, and government practices, each of which played a crucial role in valorizing, regulating, and mobilizing women's maternal bodies and responsibilities in the name of population governance. Bringing a feminist perspective and Foucauldian theory to bear on the history of Japan's wartime scientific fascism, Lee shows how anxieties over demographics have undergirded justifications for ethno-nationalism and racism, colonialism and imperialism, and gender segregation for much of Japan's modern history"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aFertility, Human$xPolitical aspects$zJapan$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aBirth control$xPolitical aspects$zJapan$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aMotherhood$xPolitical aspects$zJapan$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aBiopolitics$zJapan$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aJapan$xPopulation policy 615 0$aFertility, Human$xPolitical aspects$xHistory 615 0$aBirth control$xPolitical aspects$xHistory 615 0$aMotherhood$xPolitical aspects$xHistory 615 0$aBiopolitics$xHistory 676 $a304.6320952 700 $aLee$b Sujin$c(Professor of Pacific and Asia studies)$01793406 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910984670003321 996 $aWombs of empire$94333101 997 $aUNINA