Contraceptive diplomacy : reproductive politics and imperial ambitions in the United States and Japan / Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Takeuchi-Demirci, Aiko, author.

Series:

Asian America.

Asian America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sanger, Margaret, 1879-1966.

Sanger, Margaret.

Katō, Shizue, 1897-2001.

Katō, Shizue.

Birth control--United States--History--20th century.

Birth control.

Birth control--Japan--History--20th century.

United States--Population policy--History--20th century.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2018.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A transpacific history of clashing imperial ambitions, Contraceptive Diplomacy turns to the history of the birth control movement in the United States and Japan to interpret the struggle for hegemony in the Pacific through the lens of transnational feminism. As the birth control movement spread beyond national and racial borders, it shed its radical bearings and was pressed into the service of larger ideological debates around fertility rates and overpopulation, global competitiveness, and eugenics. By the time of the Cold War, a transnational coalition for women's sexual liberation had been handed over to imperial machinations, enabling state-sponsored population control projects that effectively disempowered women and deprived them of reproductive freedom. In this book, Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci follows the relationship between two iconic birth control activists, Margaret Sanger in the United States and Ishimoto Shizue in Japan, as well as other intellectuals and policymakers in both countries who supported their campaigns, to make sense of the complex transnational exchanges occurring around contraception. The birth control movement facilitated U.S. expansionism, exceptionalism, and anti-communist policy and was welcomed in Japan as a hallmark of modernity. By telling the story of reproductive politics in a transnational context, Takeuchi-Demirci draws connections between birth control activism and the history of eugenics, racism, and imperialism.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Figures and Tables

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Note on Japanese Names and Words

Introduction

One. The Women Rebels

Two. Spreading the Gospel of Birth Control

Three. Danger Spots in World Population

Four. Between Democracy and Genocide

Five. Re-producing National Bodies

Six. Birth Control for the Masses

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781503604414

1503604411

OCLC:

1015886211