Under the Shadow of Nationalism : : Politics and Poetics of Rural Japanese Women / / Mariko Asano Tamanoi.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Tamanoi, Mariko Asano,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [1998]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 1998
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; 1. Introduction: Japanese Nationalism and Rural Women --; 2. Fieldwork --; 3. Komori --; 4. Factory Women --; 5. The Countryside and the City 1: Yanagita Kunio and Japanese Native Ethnology --; 6. The Countryside and the City 2: Agrarianism among Nagano Middling Farmers --; 7. The Wartime Period --; 8. The Postwar "Democracy'' and the Post-postwar Nationalism --; Epilogue: A Short Critique of the Notion ofidentity --; Notes --; References --; Index --; About the Author
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780824865399; 9783110564150
• DOI: 10.1515/9780824865399
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Mariko Asano Tamanoi.

The contribution of rural women to the creation and expansion of the Japanese nation-state is undeniable. As early as the nineteenth century, the women of central Japan's Nagano prefecture in particular provided abundant and cheap labor for a number of industries, most notably the silk spinning industry. Rural women from Nagano could also be found working, from a very young age, as nursemaids, domestic servants, and farm laborers. In whatever capacity they worked, these women became the objects of scrutiny and reform in a variety of nationalist discourses--not only because of the importance of their labor to the nation, but also because of their gender and domicile (the countryside was the centerpiece of state ideology and practice before and during the war, during the Occupation, and beyond). Under the Shadow of Nationalism explores the interconnectedness of nationalism and gender in the context of modern Japan. It combines the author's long-term field research with a painstaking examination of the documents behind these discourses produced at various levels of society, from the national (government records, social reformers' reports, ethnographic data) to the local (teachers' manuals, labor activists' accounts, village newspapers). It provides a wide-ranging yet in-depth look at a key group of Japanese women as national subjects through the critical chapters of Japanese modernity and postmodernity.