Knowledge, Power, and Women's Reproductive Health in Japan, 1690-1945 / by Yuki Terazawa.
2018
DS801-897
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Title
Knowledge, Power, and Women's Reproductive Health in Japan, 1690-1945 / by Yuki Terazawa.
Author
Terazawa, Yuki, author.
ISBN
9783319730844
3319730843
9783319730837
3319730835
3319730843
9783319730837
3319730835
Published
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (XVII, 318 pages 45 illustrations) : online resource
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-73084-4 doi
9783319730837
9783319730837
Call Number
DS801-897
Dewey Decimal Classification
362.1980952
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-304) and index.
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Genders and sexualities in history.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. The Reproductive Body of the Goseihô School
Chaper 3. Changing Perceptions of the Female Body: The Rise of the Kagawa School of Obstetrics
Chapter 4. The State, Midwives, Expectant Mothers, and Childbirth Reforms from the Meiji through the Early Showa Period (1868-1930s)
Chapter 5. Women's Health Reforms in Japan at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Chapter 6. Knowledge, Power, and New Maternal Health Policies (1918-1945)
Chapter 7. Epilogue
Index.
Chapter 2. The Reproductive Body of the Goseihô School
Chaper 3. Changing Perceptions of the Female Body: The Rise of the Kagawa School of Obstetrics
Chapter 4. The State, Midwives, Expectant Mothers, and Childbirth Reforms from the Meiji through the Early Showa Period (1868-1930s)
Chapter 5. Women's Health Reforms in Japan at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Chapter 6. Knowledge, Power, and New Maternal Health Policies (1918-1945)
Chapter 7. Epilogue
Index.