Pedagogy of Democracy
Subtitle: Feminism and the Cold War in the U.S. Occupation of Japan
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: June 28, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781592137008
Subjects: American history; Women's studies; Social Science; Gender Studies; Sociology; The Americas; Asia - Japan; Women's Studies - General; Social Science / Women's Studies; History; Japan; Postcolonialism; Social conditions; Violence against; Women
Description: "Pedagogy of Democracy re-interprets the U.S. occupation of Japan from 1945 to 1952 as a problematic instance of Cold War feminist mobilization rather than a successful democratization of Japanese women as previously argued. By combining three fields of research - occupation, Cold War, and postcolonial feminist studies - and examining occupation records and other archival sources, Koikari argues that postwar gender reform was part of the Cold War containment strategies that undermined rather than promoted women's political and economic rights."--BOOK JACKET.