Gender and Nation in Meiji Japan: Modernity, Loss, and the Doing of History

by Jason G. Karlin

Gender and Nation in Meiji Japan is a historical analysis of the discourses of nostalgia in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Japan. Through an analysis of the experience of rapid social change in Japan's modernization, it argues that fads (ryūkō) and the desires they express are central to understanding Japanese modernity, conceptions of gender, and discourses of nationalism. In doing so, the author uncovers the myth of eternal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824838262
• ISBN13: 9780824838263
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.1"