Under the Shadow of Nationalism: Politics and Poetics of Rural Japanese Women 9780824865399

Table of contents :
Contents
Preface
1. Introduction: Japanese Nationalism and Rural Women
2. Fieldwork
3. Komori
4. Factory Women
5. The Countryside and the City 1: Yanagita Kunio and Japanese Native Ethnology
6. The Countryside and the City 2: Agrarianism among Nagano Middling Farmers
7. The Wartime Period
8. The Postwar "Democracy'' and the Post-postwar Nationalism
Epilogue: A Short Critique of the Notion ofidentity
Notes
References
Index
About the Author

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