Nationalism and Gender: Japanese Society Series - Softcover

Chizuko Ueno (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1876843594 ISBN 13: 9781876843595

Publisher: Trans Pacific Press, 2000

Synopsis

A discursive battle over how the nation s history should be remembered constitutes the most recent, and perhaps the most explosive, round in a struggle over the legitimacy of different understandings of the past and the focus on the comfort women issue. A foremost feminist theorist, Chizuko Ueno confronts head on in her usual lucid and hard-hitting style the various actors in the debate and skilfully cuts through the arguments of the neo-nationalist historical revisionists , who have attempted to deny or minimalise the reality of the former comfort women . Ueno s equally biting treatment of her natural allies - left-wing historians and feminist supporters of the comfort women - also makes the book highly controversial.

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Synopsis:

One of Japan's foremost feminist theorists here employs her typically lucid, hard-hitting style to confront head on the various actors in the debate surrounding the issue of 'comfort women'. While skillfully dismantling the neo-nationalist argument of the 'historical revisionists,' Ueno is no less biting in her treatment of her traditional political and intellectual allies - left-wing historians and feminist supporters of the 'comfort women' - a fact that has made the book highly controversial in Japan.

About this edition

• Publisher: Trans Pacific Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1876843594
• ISBN 13: 9781876843595
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 263