{"product_id":"womens-history-and-local-community-in-postwar-japan-routledgeasian-studies-association-of-australia-asaa-east-asian-series-0415559391","title":"Women's History and Local Community in Postwar Japan (Routledge\/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) East Asian Series)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0415559391\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Gayle, Curtis Anderson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis timely look at a neglected corner of Japanese historiography spotlights the decade following the end of World War II, a time in which Japanese society was undergoing the transformation from imperial state to democratic nation. For certain working and middle-class women involved in education and labor activism, history-writing became a means to greater voice within the turbulent transition.Women's History and Local Community in Postwar Japan examines the emergence of womens history-writing groups in Tokyo, Nagoya and Ehime, using interviews conducted with founding members and analysis of primary documents and publications by each group. It demonstrates how women appropriated history-writing as a radical praxis geared less toward revolution and more toward the articulation of local imaginations, spaces and memories after World War II. By appropriating history as a praxis that did not need revolution for its success, these women used connections established by Marxist historians between history-writing and subjectivity, but did so in ways that broke rank from nationally-referenced renditions of history and memory. Under conditions in which some women saw history as a field of articulation that remained dominated by men, they put into practice their own de-centered versions of history-writing that continue to influence the historical landscape in contemporary Japan.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51931062272288,"sku":"NEW0415559391","price":300.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/womens-history-and-local-community-in-postwar-japan-routledgeasian-studies-association-of-australia-asaa-east-asian-series-0415559391","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}