The language of feminine duty : articulating gender, culture, and covert policy in modern Japan / Rika Saito.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saito, Rika, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sexism.

Language and sex.

Language policy.

History.

Women.

Women's rights.

Japan.

Women's rights--Japan--History--20th century.

Women--Japan--Language.

Language policy--Japan--History--20th century.

Language and sex--Japan.

Sexism--Japan--Language.

Sexism--Language.

Women--Language.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 208 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Peter Lang, [2021]

Summary:

"This book examines "women's speech" as a policy of constructs expressed in official and unofficial discourse from the 1880s to the 1920s in Japan. It analyzes specific language policies that were incorporated through governmental gender policy to perpetuate "women's speech," asymmetrical gendered speech styles and concepts in the Japanese language. It also seeks to develop crosscultural approaches to language and gender theories initiated in the United States and Europe by proposing new concepts of language policy. This work contributes to ongoing interdisciplinary scholarship on gender, language, and policy by reconsidering the relationship between the Japanese "national language" and "women's speech.""-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Prologue: Theorizing Women's Speech and Covert Language Policy

Modernizing Variegated Japanese Speech

Systematizing Women's Active Agency in Nation Building

Conceptualizing Women Through Instructive Texts

Resisting the Gendered Style of Women's Writing

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Saito, Rika, The language of feminine duty

ISBN:

9781433184550

1433184559

OCLC:

1232013324