Gendering Modern Japanese History

by Theodore F. Cook, Kathleen Uno, Haruko Taya Cook, et al.

Book Overview

In the past quarter-century, gender has emerged as a lively area of inquiry for historians and other scholars, and gender analysis has suggested important revisions of the "master narratives" of national histories--the dominant, often celebratory tales of the successes of a nation and its leaders. Although modern Japanese history has not yet been restructured by a foregrounding of gender, historians of Japan have begun to embrace gender as an analytic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674017803
• ISBN13: 9780674017801
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 632 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.5" x 9.3"