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Author Kimura, Aya Hirata, 1974- author.

Title Radiation brain moms and citizen scientists : the gender politics of food contamination after the Fukushima / Aya Hirata Kimura
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2016
©2016

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 210 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents "Moms with radiation brain" : gendered food policing in the name of science -- Engineering citizens -- School lunches: science, motherhood, and joshi power -- Citizen radiation-measuring organizations -- The temporality of contaminants
Summary Aya Hirata Kimura traces the experiences of citizen scientists-particularly mothers-who after the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster collected scientific data that revealed radiation-contaminated food, showing how the Japanese government used neoliberal and traditional gender ideologies to discount and socially sanction these women and their findings
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-199) and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed April 16, 2021)
Subject Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011.
Food contamination -- Japan
Mothers -- Japan
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
HISTORY -- Asia -- Japan.
Food contamination
Mothers
Social conditions
SUBJECT Japan -- Social conditions -- 21st century
Subject Japan
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016011248
ISBN 9780822373964
0822373963