Women in Asia under the Japanese Empire

Tatsuya Kageki, Jiajia Yang, Tatsuya Kageki, Jiajia Yang

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781032247625
• eBook ISBN: 9781000845297
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Histoire
• Subtopic: Histoire du 20ème siècle

Contributors to this book provide an Asian women's history from the perspective of gender analysis, assessing Japanese imperial policy and propaganda in its colonies and occupied territories and particularly its impact on women.

Tackling topics including media, travel, migration, literature, and the perceptions of the empire by the colonized, the authors present an eclectic history, unified by the perspective of gender studies and the spatial and political lens of the Japanese Empire. They look at the lives of women in, Taiwan, Korea, Manchuria, Mainland China, Micronesia, and Okinawa, among others. These women were wives, mothers, writers, migrants, intellectuals and activists, and thus had a very broad range of views and experiences of Imperial Japan. Where women have tended in the past to be studied as objects of the imperial system, the contributors to this book study them as the subject of history, while also providing an outside-in perspective on the Japanese Empire by other Asians.

A vital new perspective for scholars of twentieth-century history of East Asian countries and regions.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Illustration
• Acknowledgements
• Contributors
• Introduction
• Part I The Ideal of Women Delivered by the Empire
• Part II Women Traveling in and Writing on Asia
• Part III Seeking “Imperial Women” in Colonial Asia
• Part IV The Periphery of Empire
• Index