1st Edition
Women’s History and Local Community in Postwar Japan
By Curtis Anderson Gayle
Copyright 2010
208 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
208 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
208 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This timely look at a neglected corner of Japanese historiography spotlights the decade following the end of World War II, a time in which Japanese society was undergoing the transformation from imperial state to democratic nation. For certain working and middle-class women involved in education and labor activism, history-writing became a means to greater voice within the turbulent... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Rewriting Local History in the Aftermath of World War II 3. Women’s History in the Center: The Tokyo Josei-shi Kenkyukai 4. Kyodo-shi in Nagoya: fusing local pasts and presents 5. Chi’iki Stirrings in Ehime 6. the Ehime Women’s History Circle 7. Local Women’s History in Contemporary Focus
Biography
Curtis Anderson Gayle is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Integrated Arts & Social Sciences at Japan Women’s University, in Tokyo. He is the author of Marxist History and Postwar Japanese Nationalism (Routledge 2002) and specializes in modern Japanese history and comparative culture.
