Knowledge, Power, and Women's Reproductive Health in Japan, 1690-1945 - Genders and Sexualities in History
Softcover reprint of the original 1st Edition 2018
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This book analyzes how women's bodies became a subject and object of modern bio-power by examining the history of women's reproductive health in Japan between the seventeenth century and the mid-twentieth century. Yuki Terazawa combines Foucauldian theory and
feminist ideas with in-depth historical research. She argues that central to the rise of bio-power and the colonization of people by this power was modern scientific taxonomies that classify people into categories of gender, race, nationality, class, age, disability, and disease. While
discussions of the roles played by the modern state are of critical importance to this project, significant attention is also paid to the increasing influences of male obstetricians and the parts that trained midwives and public health nurses played in the dissemination of modern power
after the 1868 Meiji Restoration.
Book information
ISBN: | 9783030103125 |
Publisher: | Springer International Publishing |
Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan |
Pub date: | 27 Dec 2018 |
Edition: | Softcover reprint of the original 1st Edition 2018 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 318 |
Weight: | 454g |
Height: | 210mm |
Width: | 148mm |
Spine width: | 18mm |