Nationalism and Gender,9781876843595

Nationalism and Gender

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ISBN13: 9781876843595
ISBN10: 1876843594
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-01-01
Publisher(s): Trans Pacific Press
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Summary

A discursive battle over how Japan's history should be remembered constitutes the most recent, and perhaps the most explosive, round in a struggle over the legitimacy of different "narrator's" understandings of the past and its focus on the "comfort women" issue. Feminist theorist Chizuko Ueno confronts head on, in her usual lucid and hard-hitting style, the various actors in the debate. She skillfully cuts through the argument of the neo-nationalist "historical revisionists" who have attempted to deny or minimize the reality of the former "comfort women". Ueno's equally biting treatment of her natural allies - left-wing historians and feminist supporters of the "comfort women" - has also made the book highly controversial.

Author Biography

Chizuko Ueno is a professor in the Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology at the University of Tokyo Beverley Yamamoto teaches in the School of East Asian Studies at the University of Sheffield

Table of Contents

Translator's Introduction vii
Author's Introduction to the English Edition xxviii
Part I - Engendering the Nation
Methodological Issues
3(3)
Paradigm Change in Post-War History
6(8)
Paradigm Change in Women's History
14(2)
The Nationalisation of Women and Wartime Mobilisation
16(6)
The Feminist Response
22(8)
The Feminist Version of 'Conquering the Modern'
30(3)
Female Socialist or Socialist Feminist? The Case of Yamakawa Kikue
33(5)
The War Responsibility of Ordinary Women
38(5)
The Dilemma of the Nation-State's Gender Strategy
43(6)
The Paradox of this Gender Strategy
49(3)
Women and the Issue of Conversion
52(4)
Ideas Capable of Transcending the State
56(3)
A Critique of the Reflexive School of Women's History
59(4)
Going Beyond the 'Nationalisation of Women' Paradigm
63(6)
Part II - The Military Comfort Women Issue 69(38)
A Triple Crime
The Patriarchal Paradigm of National Shame
73(3)
The 'Purity' of Korean Women
76(4)
The Military Rape Paradigm
80(2)
The Prostitution Paradigm
82(5)
The Sexual Violence Paradigm
87(5)
The Nationalist Discourse
92(3)
The Grey Zone of Collaboration with Japan
95(2)
A Uniquely Japanese or Universal Phenomenon?
97(3)
Gender, Class and the Nation
100(4)
'Truth' Amidst Multiple Histories
104(3)
Part III - The Politics of Memory 107(42)
The Japanese Version of Historical Revisionism
109(3)
The Challenge to Gender History
112(2)
The Positivist Myth of Objective and Neutral History
114(5)
Historicization versus an Ahistorical Approach
119(4)
Oral History and Testimony
123(4)
Narrating History
127(5)
Reflexive Women's History
132(5)
Going Beyond the Nation-State
137(6)
Can Feminism Transcend Nationalism?
143(6)
Part IV - Hiroshima from a Feminist Perspective: Between War Crimes and the Crime of War 149(30)
Feminism, Peace Studies and Military Studies
Hiroshima as a Symbol
151(3)
Hiroshima as seen from an American Perspective
154(3)
The Hague International Court of Justice and the
157(2)
De-Criminalization of Nuclear Weapons
The Split in the Peace Movement
159(2)
The De-Criminalization of State Violence
161(2)
Two Lawless Zones
163(2)
Who is a Citizen?
165(2)
Public Violence and Gender
167(3)
Women's Participation in the Military
170(1)
The Nationalisation of Women
171(3)
Between War Crimes and the Crime of War
174(5)
Epilogue 179(9)
Chronology of Related Events 188(9)
Notes 197(30)
References 227(20)
Index 247

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