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1 online resource |
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Genders and sexualities in history |
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Genders and sexualities in history.
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| Contents |
Intro; Series Editor' Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Notes to the Reader; The Periodization of Japanese History; The Tokugawa System; Names and Romanization; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: The Reproductive Body of the Goseihō School; Goseihō's Microcosmic Body15; Manase Dōsan and the Goseihō School; Obstetrics and Gynecology Through the Genroku Era28; Katsuki Gyūzan and His Work; Pronatalist Reproductive Techniques; Disciplining Pregnant Women; Representing the Birthing Process; Markers of Sexual Difference |
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Chapter 3: Changing Perceptions of the Female Body: The Rise of the Kagawa School of ObstetricsThe Rise of the School of Ancient Practice; The Kagawa School of Obstetrics; Kagawa Gen'etsu; The Reconceptualization of the Body in Sanron and Sanron Yoku; A New System of Obstetric Procedures; Obstetric Practice in Commercialized Society; The State, Physicians, and Reproductive Surveillance; Chapter 4: The State, Midwives, Expectant Mothers, and Childbirth Reforms from the Meiji Through to the Early Shōwa Period (1868-1930s); The Establishment of New Medical and Public Health Systems |
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Changing Power Relations Involving the State, Medical Experts, and Expectant Mothers in Meiji JapanEarly Meiji Regulations; The Making of Modern, Nationalist Midwives; Childbirth Reforms; Reproductive Surveillance Through Midwives; Chapter 5: Women's Health Reforms in Japan at the Turn of the Twentieth Century; Discourse on "Japanese Bodies" and Adopting the Eugenics Thought; Molding Young Women's Bodies Through Physical Education; Medicalized Discourse on Women's Clothes and Beauty; Women's Resistances and Collusions; Chapter 6: Knowledge, Power, and New Maternal Health Policies (1918-1945) |
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Efforts to Provide Free Midwifery Services for Poor WomenThe Aiiku Association and Maternal and Infant Health in Rural Japan; New Maternal and Infant Health Policies, 1937-1942; Chapter 7: Epilogue; Select Bibliography; Select Primary Sources in Japanese Language; Journals; Books; Select General Sources; Index |
| Summary |
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, 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. .-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Vendor-supplied metadata |
| Subject |
Reproductive health -- Japan
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Women -- Health and hygiene -- Japan
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Fertility, Human -- Japan
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MEDICAL -- Gynecology & Obstetrics.
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Fertility, Human
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Reproductive health
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Women -- Health and hygiene
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Japan
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783319730844 |
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3319730843 |
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