Marketing the Menacing Fetus in Japan

Informationen zum Autor Helen Hardacre is Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions and Society at Harvard University! and author of Shinto and the State! 1868-1988 (1989) and Kurozumikyo and the New Religions of Japan (1986). Klappentext "A remarkably original contribution to the anthropology of reproduction, Marketing the Menacing Fetus in Japan provides broad and deep insights into the culture of sexuality and gender in Japan. Framing the issues historically, as well as anthropologically, Hardacre artfully blends a wide variety of sources, from the demographic to participant observation, from surveys to rich life histories. The book is a major contribution to feminist studies of abortion, and its impact is likely to equal that of Faye Ginsburg's justly famous book, Contested Lives ."—David I. Kertzer, author of Sacrificed for Honor: Italian Infant Abandonment and the Politics of Reproductive Control Zusammenfassung This text provides an examination of "mizuko kuyo", a Japanese religious ritual for aborted foetuses. Popularized during the 1970s, when religious entrepreneurs published accounts of foetal wrath and spirit attacks, mizuko kuyo offers ritual atonement for women who chose to have abortions.

Product details

• Authors: Helen Hardacre, Hardacre Helen
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.03.1999
• EAN: 9780520216549
• ISBN: 978-0-520-21654-9
• No. of pages: 332
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 230 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Twentieth-Century Japan: The E; Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; comparative religion, RELIGION / Comparative Religion, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Religion & beliefs, Social and cultural anthropology