Geographies of gender : family and law in Imperial Japan and Colonial Taiwan / Tadashi Ishikawa, University of Central Florida.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ishikawa, Tadashi, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex role--Japan--History.

Sex role.

Sex role--Taiwan--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 283 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Summary:

Tadashi Ishikawa traces perceptions and practices of gender in the Japanese empire on the occasion of Japan's colonisation of Taiwan from 1895 . In the 1910s, metropolitan and colonial authorities attempted social reform in ways which particularly impacted on family traditions and, therefore, gender relations, paving the way for the politics of comparison within and beyond the empire. In Geographies of Gender, Tadashi Ishikawa delves into a variety of diplomatic issues, colonial and anticolonial discourses, and judicial cases, finding marriage gifts, daughter adoption, and premarital sexual relationships to be sites of tension between norms and ideals among both elite and ordinary men and women. He explores how the Japanese empire became a gendered space from the 1910s through the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937, arguing that gender norms were both unsettled and reinforced in ways which highlight the instability of metropole-colony relations.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title

Title page

Imprints page

Dedication

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Maps

Acknowledgments

Note on the Text

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Family, Gender, and Social Customs in Question in Modern Japan and Colonial Taiwan

Circulation of Empire: Interwar Japan (1919-1937), Colonial Taiwan, and the Law

Circulations of Men and Women: Masculinity and Women's Agency in Colonial Taiwan

Book Outline

1 The Woman Question and Interwar Japan's International Engagements

Criticizing Freedom and Unfreedom in the 1920s

Revolutionary Love, Progressive Marriage, and the League of Nations on the Japanese Family

Rolling Back: Japan's Reengagements with the World

Conclusion

2 Empire Apart, Empire Together

Emerging Ideals of Progress: Familial and Marital Practices since the Mid-1910s

Progress of Women at Large: Independence in Japan and Society in Taiwan

Burdens of Progress: Gendering Women in the Empire

3 Becoming a Taiwanese Man

Male Taiwanese Elites, Patriarchy, and the Emergence of New Taiwanese Voices

Regulating Premarital Sexual Relationships and Cultivating Individual Maturity

Visions of Family Reform, Leveling Gender Relations, and the Politics of Colonial Society

Building Masculinity at the Expense of Taiwanese Women

4 When the Hearth Was at Once Warm and Cold

When the Taiwanese Household Met the Japanese Colonial Courts

Wedding Rituals, Marital Life, and Negotiating Masculinity

Daughter Adoption, Protecting Fathers, and Masculinity on the Move

Readopting Daughters and Making a Collusive Masculinity Legible

5 Freedom in a State of Flux

Women's Unfreedom, Changing Laws, and Emerging Awareness

Adopted Daughters, Physical Freedom, and Judicial Intervention in the Early to Mid-1920s.

Dispersion of Women's Freedom in the Contexts of Choice, Household, and Gender

6 Stories Marginal Women Wove

Taiwanese Premarital Relationships in Early Colonial Taiwan

Premarital Sexual Relationships and Spotlighting Women in the Early 1920s

Divorce Cases, Constructing Marriage, and Premarital Relationships in the Late 1920s

Women, Premarital Sexual Relationships, and the Involvement of Male Heads of Households

Women Striking Back and the Reorientation of Premarital Relationships

Conclusion: ''A Woman Can Rely Only on Money and the Law''

The War and the Circulation of Gender

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Jan 2025).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781009534161

1009534165

9781009534208

1009534203

9781009534215

1009534211