Geographies of Gender - Family and Law in Imperial Japan and Colonial Taiwan

"Centering on imperial Japan and colonial Taiwan under Japanese rule since 1895, Geographies of Gender traces perceptions and changing practices of gender across the empire. Tadashi Ishikawa demonstrates how the Japanese empire became a gendered space in public debates and judicial practices concerning family and marriage"--

List of contents

Introduction; 1. The woman question and interwar Japan's international engagements; 2. Empire apart, empire together; 3. Becoming a Taiwanese man; 4. When the hearth was at once warm and cold; 5. Freedom in a state of flux; 6. Stories marginal women wove; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Tadashi Ishikawa is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Central Florida.

Summary

Centering on imperial Japan and colonial Taiwan under Japanese rule since 1895, Geographies of Gender traces perceptions and changing practices of gender across the empire. Tadashi Ishikawa demonstrates how the Japanese empire became a gendered space in public debates and judicial practices concerning family and marriage.

Product details

• Authors: Tadashi Ishikawa, Tadashi (University of Central Florida) Ishikawa, Ishikawa Tadashi
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2024
• EAN: 9781009534178
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0953417-8
• No. of pages: 295
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; Japan, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Taiwan, 20th Century, HISTORY / Asia / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, c 1800 to c 1900, Colonialism & imperialism, Legal History, Colonialism and imperialism, Asian History, Gender studies, gender groups, 1868–1912 (Japanese Meiji period), c 1910 to c 1945 (Korean Japanese colonial period)