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Geographies of Gender

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

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Publisher's Synopsis

Tadashi Ishikawa traces perceptions and practices of gender in the Japanese empire on the occasion of Japan's colonisation of Taiwan from 1895 . In the 1910s, metropolitan and colonial authorities attempted social reform in ways which particularly impacted on family traditions and, therefore, gender relations, paving the way for the politics of comparison within and beyond the empire. In Geographies of Gender, Tadashi Ishikawa delves into a variety of diplomatic issues, colonial and anticolonial discourses, and judicial cases, finding marriage gifts, daughter adoption, and premarital sexual relationships to be sites of tension between norms and ideals among both elite and ordinary men and women. He explores how the Japanese empire became a gendered space from the 1910s through the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937, arguing that gender norms were both unsettled and reinforced in ways which highlight the instability of metropole-colony relations.

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Book information

ISBN: 9781009534178
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 305.3095209041
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 295
Weight: 595g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 18mm