@article{1470273,
      recid = {1470273},
      author = {Satō, Yasuko,},
      title = {Takamure Itsue, Japanese antiquity, and matricultural  paradigms that address the crisis of modernity : a woman  from the land of fire /},
      pages = {1 online resource (1 volume) :},
      abstract = {Takamure Itsue, an anarchist, poet, first womens  historian, fanatic nationalist and maternalist feminist, is  a controversial figure. This is a challenging and  considerate re-examination to allocate her work and life  with a new light in the historical context of Japanese  feminism. Chizuko Ueno, University of Tokyo, Japan This  book explores Takamure Itsues (18941964) intellectual  odyssey as Japans most notable pioneer in the study of  womens history. When she embarked on a series of scholarly  projects that investigated marriage patterns and kinship  systems in ancient Japan, it was a response to  crisis-ridden modernity. Relentless in her quest to  dismantle patriarchy, this woman from the Land of Fire (a  nickname for her birthplace, Kumamoto Prefecture) locked  herself away in 1931 and spent the rest of her life  conducting research on female-friendly societies with  matrilocal arrangements under kinship-based communal  systems. While dissecting the patriarchal norms  undergirding the capitalist nation-state, she embraced  matricultural paradigms that embodied life-sustaining and  life-enhancing values through communal childrearing and  matrilineal inheritance. Takamure, a visionary thinker,  asked big-picture questions and addressed multifarious  issues of contemporary relevance, including beauty  standards, human trafficking, gross disparities in wealth,  war and imperialism, science and religion, and humanitys  relationship with nature. Yasuko Sato is Associate  Professor of History at Lamar University in Beaumont,  Texas, where she teaches East Asian history, along with  world/US survey courses. Her area of specialization is  Japanese intellectual history in global contexts, with  primary attention to the rediscovery and revival of  classical antiquity in the modern world.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1470273},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17909-9},
}