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

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Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [1998]
©1998
Year of Publication:1998
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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