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Wombs of Empire

Author : Sujin Lee
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503637018
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Wombs of Empire written by Sujin Lee and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan's contemporary struggle with low fertility rates is a well-known issue, as are the country's efforts to bolster their population in order to address attendant socioeconomic challenges. However, though this anxiety about and discourse around population is thought of as relatively recent phenomenon, government and medical intervention in reproduction and fertility are hardly new in Japan. The "population problem (jinko mondai)" became a buzzword in the country over a century ago, in the 1910s, with a growing call among Japanese social scientists and social reformers to solve what were seen as existential demographic issues. In this book, Sujin Lee traces the trajectory of population discourses in interwar and wartime Japan, and positions them as critical sites where competing visions of modernity came into tension. Lee destabilizes the essentialized notions of motherhood and population by dissecting gender norms, modern knowledge, and government practices, each of which played a crucial role in valorizing, regulating, and mobilizing women's maternal bodies and responsibilities in the name of population governance. Bringing a feminist perspective and Foucauldian theory to bear on the history of Japan's wartime scientific fascism, Lee shows how anxieties over demographics have undergirded justifications for ethnonationalism and racism, colonialism and imperialism, and gender segregation for much of Japan's modern history.

Key Concepts in Post-colonial Studies

Author : Bill Ashcroft
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415153042
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (151 download)

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Download or read book Key Concepts in Post-colonial Studies written by Bill Ashcroft and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential guide to understanding the issues which characterize post-colonialism. A comprehensive glossary has extensive cross-referencing, a bibliography of essential writings and an easy-to-use A-Z format.

Politics of the Womb

Author : Lynn Thomas
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520936647
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Politics of the Womb written by Lynn Thomas and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-08-20 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In more than a metaphorical sense, the womb has proven to be an important site of political struggle in and about Africa. By examining the political significance—and complex ramifications—of reproductive controversies in twentieth-century Kenya, this book explores why and how control of female initiation, abortion, childbirth, and premarital pregnancy have been crucial to the exercise of colonial and postcolonial power. This innovative book enriches the study of gender, reproduction, sexuality, and African history by revealing how reproductive controversies challenged long-standing social hierarchies and contributed to the construction of new ones that continue to influence the fraught politics of abortion, birth control, female genital cutting, and HIV/AIDS in Africa.

The Wombs of Women

Author : Françoise Vergès
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478008865
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Wombs of Women written by Françoise Vergès and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-17 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1960s thousands of poor women of color on the (post)colonial French island of Reunion had their pregnancies forcefully terminated by white doctors; the doctors operated under the pretext of performing benign surgeries, for which they sought government compensation. When the scandal broke in 1970, the doctors claimed to have been encouraged to perform these abortions by French politicians who sought to curtail reproduction on the island, even though abortion was illegal in France. In The Wombs of Women—first published in French and appearing here in English for the first time—Françoise Vergès traces the long history of colonial state intervention in black women’s wombs during the slave trade and postslavery imperialism as well as in current birth control politics. She examines the women’s liberation movement in France in the 1960s and 1970s, showing that by choosing to ignore the history of the racialization of women’s wombs, French feminists inevitably ended up defending the rights of white women at the expense of women of color. Ultimately, Vergès demonstrates how the forced abortions on Reunion were manifestations of the legacies of the racialized violence of slavery and colonialism.

Wombs with a View

Author : Lawrence D. Longo
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319235672
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (192 download)

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Download or read book Wombs with a View written by Lawrence D. Longo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume provides an archive of some of the most beautiful illustrations ever made of the gravid uterus with fetus and placenta, which will serve future generations of investigators, educators, and students of reproduction. The approximately two hundred figures from over one hundred volumes included are from the late fifteenth through the nineteenth century. For each author whose work is depicted in this volume, we have used the first edition or first illustrated edition. In the commentary, each volume and illustration is placed in its historical perspective, noting both the significance of that image, but also some background on the life and work of the author. For most of the works cited, there are additional references for the reader who may wish to explore these in greater depth. This volume is a unique collection not only of these historical images, but also their place in the development of scientific study.

Contraceptive Diplomacy

Author : Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci
Publisher : Asian America
ISBN 13 : 9781503602250
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Contraceptive Diplomacy written by Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci and published by Asian America. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Sexuality, Maternity, and (Re)productive Futures

Author : Kazue Harada
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004468846
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Sexuality, Maternity, and (Re)productive Futures written by Kazue Harada and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sexuality, Maternity, and (Re)productive Futures explores how contemporary Japanese female speculative fiction writers have challenged historical inequalities of sex, gender difference, and family roles by imagining alternative worlds where sexes are fluid and childbearing crosses the boundaries of male/female, biological/bioengineered, and human/nonhuman.

Women as Wombs

Author : Janice G. Raymond
Publisher : Spinifex Press
ISBN 13 : 9781875559411
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (594 download)

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Download or read book Women as Wombs written by Janice G. Raymond and published by Spinifex Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation. Renowned scholar and feminist activist, Janice Raymond, delivers a passionate expose and uncovers the alarming ethical, legal and political implications of high-tech biomedical reproductive technologies. She argues that these technologies are neither liberatory nor an issue of reproductive "choice". Rather, they violate the integrity of women's bodies, perpetuate prostitution and an international trafficking in women and children, and are a threat to women's basic human rights. Women As Wombs is a scathing feminist analysis which contributes groundbreaking insights to the raging debate over reproductive technology.

Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures - Continental Europe and its Empires

Author : Prem Poddar
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748650970
Total Pages : 847 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures - Continental Europe and its Empires written by Prem Poddar and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-21 with total page 847 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first reference work to provide an integrated and authoritative body of information about the political, cultural and economic contexts of postcolonial literatures that have their provenance in the major European Empires of Belgium, Denmark, France, G

Empire of Liberty

Author : Anthony Bogues
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1584659300
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (846 download)

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Download or read book Empire of Liberty written by Anthony Bogues and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2010 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original and stimulating critique of American empire

The Heir

Author : Scott Michael Decker
Publisher : Next Chapter
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (661 download)

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Download or read book The Heir written by Scott Michael Decker and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2022-02-07 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The future of the Empire hangs in the balance. Separated from birth, the Royal Twins have been raised in opposite corners of the empire. Meanwhile, bandits continue to lay waste to the kingdom in their attempt to force the Emperor to relinquish the Northern Imperial Sword. Among them is the Noble Bandit, nemesis of Peasant General Guarding Bear. Tasked with rearing one of the twins, the Peasant General wastes no time in preparing the boy for his destiny of ridding the kingdom of the bandits once and for all. But long-kept secrets are brought to life as the Heir is mistaken for his long-lost brother. As the Heir completes his task, his new rival declares himself Emperor of the northern lands. Their path leads them towards a final confrontation that will forever change the fate of the realm.

Disintegrating Empire

Author : Elise Franklin
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496240693
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Disintegrating Empire written by Elise Franklin and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Elemental Magic

Author : Rebecca York
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780425217863
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Elemental Magic written by Rebecca York and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The four mystical elements of air, fire, water, and earth come together in a magical anthology of romance, fantasy, and enchantment, featuring a quartet of novellas by four popular authors--Sharon Shinn, Rebecca York, Carol Berg, and Jean Johnson. Original.

Nakahara

Author : Thomas Smith
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 080476669X
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Nakahara written by Thomas Smith and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1977-06-01 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians have long been intrigued by Japan's static national population during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, when the output of the economy was almost certainly growing. Was population held in check by high mortality or low fertility, or by some combination of the two? The author of this monograph suggests an answer through analysis of the population and tax registers of the village of Nakahara between 1717 and 1830. He finds that both mortality and registered fertility in Nakahara were strikingly low by comparison to eighteenth-century European communities. The causes of low mortality are uncertain, but low registered fertility was mainly the result of infanticide. The author shows, surprisingly, that infanticide was not primarily a function of poverty or the desperation of the moment but was practiced as a form of family planning, resulting from a clear understanding of the relationship between farming efficiency and family size and composition in an intensely competitive agrarian economy. The final chapter discusses the extent to which Nakahara may have been representative of rural Japan.

The Routledge Companion to Sexuality and Colonialism

Author : Chelsea Schields
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429999917
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Sexuality and Colonialism written by Chelsea Schields and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-24 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unique in its global and interdisciplinary scope, this collection will bring together comparative insights across European, Ottoman, Japanese, and US imperial contexts while spanning colonized spaces in Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Indian Ocean, the Middle East, and East and Southeast Asia. Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives from cultural, intellectual and political history, anthropology, law, gender and sexuality studies, and literary criticism, The Routledge Companion to Sexuality and Colonialism combines regional and historiographic overviews with detailed case studies, making it the key reference for up-to-date scholarship on the intimate dimensions of colonial rule. Comprising more than 30 chapters by a team of international contributors, the Companion is divided into five parts: Directions in the study of sexuality and colonialism Constructing race, controlling reproduction Sexuality in law Subjects, souls, and selfhood Pleasure and violence. The Routledge Companion to Sexuality and Colonialism is essential reading for students and researchers in gender, sexuality, race, global studies, world history, Indigeneity, and settler colonialism.

The Demographics of Empire

Author : Karl Ittmann
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821443488
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book The Demographics of Empire written by Karl Ittmann and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Demographics of Empire is a collection of essays examining the multifaceted nature of the colonial science of demography in the last two centuries. The contributing scholars of Africa and the British and French empires focus on three questions: How have historians, demographers, and other social scientists understood colonial populations? What were the demographic realities of African societies and how did they affect colonial systems of power? Finally, how did demographic theories developed in Europe shape policies and administrative structures in the colonies? The essays approach the subject as either broad analyses of major demographic questions in Africa’s history or focused case studies that demonstrate how particular historical circumstances in individual African societies contributed to differing levels of fertility, mortality, and migration. Together, the contributors to The Demographics of Empire question demographic orthodoxy, and in particular the assumption that African societies in the past exhibited a single demographic regime characterized by high fertility and high mortality.

Passions

Author : James Hendershot
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1490728074
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Passions written by James Hendershot and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2014-02-14 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Siklsi is now a young man and must protect his family from bloody horrible trials and tribulations ranging from the deep sea into the great heavens. Evil lurches everywhere, only to find their Queen, who is also rooting for this family full of love and passion. The family discovers they are on an adventure in the lands of great mysteries and phenomena. Their joy and comfort forsake them as they are placed into the hands of death, which has no mercy on their loving hearts. Siklsi risks everything by joining an unknown species in saving all that they know. The risk proves a success as he watches those who killed his wives vanish in time. Trouble continues to burden them as some unknown force has altered these Progenitors future generations. They receive a new family member that works with them to save all life, which is now in jeopardy. She in turns helps save other great future leaders of love and passion they stem from this crucial bloodline. This growing family return to their homes and hope to, once again, begin their lives full of love and passion, which now has the scars of hate and pain chained in the dark pits of their past.