A new woman of Japan : a political biography of Kato Shidzue
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A new woman of Japan : a political biography of Kato Shidzue
（Transitions : Asia and Asian America）
Westview, 1996
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 286-294) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This perceptive and detailed biography traces the life of Kat Shidzue, one of Japans most powerful female activists and politicians. An early founder of Japans birth control movement, Kat advocated for a range of womens rights before and after World War II. Helen Hopper also traces Kats joys and sorrows as wife and mother, especially her moving struggle to maintain her family during the bitter war years. Readers will find this book a richly documented and engaging view of womens issues and political life in Japan. }This perceptive, detailed biography traces the life of Kat Shidzue, one of Japans most powerful female activists and politicians. Kats activism initially was sparked by her friendship with Margaret Sanger, who inspired Kat to found a Japanese birth control movement in the 1920s. Kat then opened one of Japans first birth control clinics in the 1930s and worked for womens rights up to World War II despite the growing oppression of the countrys militarists. After the war, she returned to public life, running for elective office.
She served as a representative and as a senator, and with her entre to the offices of the American Occupation she became one of the most effective women in postwar politics.Although primarily a political biography, this book also traces Kats joys and sorrows as wife and mother. Helen Hopper movingly describes Kats solitary struggle when her formerly radical husband abandoned her for imperialist adventurism; her secret liaison with the political labor leader Kat Kanj during the 1930s; her despair at sending her first son to war and watching the second succumb to tuberculosis; and her delight with her wartime marriage to Kat Kanj and the birth of a daughter during the U.S. firebombing of Tokyo. Still active at ninety-eight, Kat Shidzue continues to speak out forcefully for the causes she espouses. Scholars of Japan and of womens history will find this book a richly documented and engaging view of womens issues and political life in Japan. }
目次
- Good Wife, Wise Mother.
- A New Woman of Japan.
- Independence.
- Dangerous Thoughts.
- Discreet Activism.
- Political Suppression.
- Quiet Disappoval.
- The Winter Years.
- Rising from the Ashes.
- Political Triumph.
- Populist Politics.
- Discord.
- Conflict over Birth Control.
- Life-Changes.
- A Political Maverick.
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