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Pedagogy of Democracy re-interprets the U.S. occupation of Japan from 1945 to 1952 as a problematic instance of Cold War feminist mobilization rather than a successful democratization of Japanese women as previously argued. By combining or "using" three fields of research--occupation, Cold War, and postcolonial feminist studies--and examining occupation records and other archival sources, Koikari argues that postwar gender reform was part of the Cold War containment strategies that undermined rather than promoted women's political and economic rights. Koikari suggests that American and Japanese women leaders both participated in as well as resisted the ruling dynamics of race, gender, class, sexuality, and nation. Thus, Pedagogy of Democracy sheds new light on the complex and contradictory implications of Western feminist interventions in Asia. By applying a postcolonial feminist framework to American gender reform in the Cold War Asia-Pacific context--a subject hitherto understudied among feminist scholars--Pedagogy of Democracy reveals both the similarities and the differences between imperial feminisms in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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• Full title: Pedagogy of Democracy
• Subtitle: Feminism and the Cold War in the U.S. Occupation of Japan
• Author: Mire Koikari
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240
• EAN: 9781592137015
• ISBN: 1592137016
• ID: 05087469
• Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S.
• Weight: 340 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 153 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. December 2009

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