Nationalism and Gender: Japanese Society Series

A discursive battle over how Japan's history should be remembered constitutes the most recent, and perhaps the most explosive, round in a struggle over the legitimacy of different "narrator's" understandings of the past and its focus on the "comfort women" issue. Feminist theorist Chizuko Ueno confronts head on, in her usual lucid and hard-hitting style, the various actors in the debate. She skillfully cuts through the argument of the neo-nationalist "historical revisionists" who have attempted to deny or minimize the reality of the former "comfort women". Ueno's equally biting treatment of her natural allies - left-wing historians and feminist supporters of the "comfort women" - has also made the book highly controversial.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Trans Pacific Press
Published: 01/01/2004
ISBN: 9781876843595
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.30w x 0.80d

Review Citations: Choice 10/01/2004 pg. 350