Coed revolution : the female student in the Japanese New Left
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Bibliographic Information
Coed revolution : the female student in the Japanese New Left
(Asia-Pacific : culture, politics, and society)
Duke University Press, 2021
- : [hardcover]
Available at 10 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-204) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In the 1960s, a new generation of university-educated youth in Japan challenged forms of capitalism and the state. In Coed Revolution Chelsea Szendi Schieder recounts the crucial stories of Japanese women's participation in these protest movements led by the New Left through the early 1970s. Women were involved in contentious politics to an unprecedented degree, but they and their concerns were frequently marginalized by men in the movement and the mass media, and the movement at large is often memorialized as male and masculine. Drawing on stories of individual women, Schieder outlines how the media and other activists portrayed these women as icons of vulnerability and victims of violence, making women central to discourses about legitimate forms of postwar political expression. Schieder disentangles the gendered patterns that obscured radical women's voices to construct a feminist genealogy of the Japanese New Left, demonstrating that student activism in 1960s Japan cannot be understood without considering the experiences and representations of these women.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Gendering the New Japanese Left 1
1. Naive Politics: A Maiden Sacrifice for Postwar Democracy 21
2. "My Love and Rebellion": The Politics of Nurturing, the Logic of Capital, and the Rationalization of Coeducation 49
3. Is the Personal Political? Everyday Life as a Site of Struggle in the Campus New Left 78
4. "When You Fuck a Vanguard Girl . . .": The Spectacle of New Left Masculinity 104
5. "Gewalt Rosas": The Creation of the Terrifying, Titillating Female Student Activist 132
Conclusion: Revolutionary Desire 158
Notes 169
Bibliography 191
Index 205
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