Mothers Against War: Gender, Motherhood, and Peace Activism in Cold War Japan

by Akiko Takenaka

Mothers Against War examines the shifting relationships among motherhood, peace activism, and women's rights in the decades following Japan's defeat in 1945. With a focus on the concept of bosei, generally understood to be the "motherly" qualities that are supposedly inherent to women, the book illuminates how popular perceptions of the mother, the child, and the mother-child relationship gradually evolved to create the image that mothers, more than...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824898532
• ISBN13: 9780824898533
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 224 Pages