Geographies of Gender

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Centering on imperial Japan and colonial Taiwan under Japanese rule since 1895, Geographies of Gender traces perceptions and changing practices of gender across the empire. Tadashi Ishikawa demonstrates how the Japanese empire became a gendered space in public debates and judicial practices concerning family and marriage. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The woman question and interwar Japan's international engagements; 2. Empire apart, empire together; 3. Becoming a Taiwanese man; 4. When the hearth was at once warm and cold; 5. Freedom in a state of flux; 6. Stories marginal women wove; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.