Knowledge, Power, and Women's Reproductive Health in Japan, 1690-1945

This book analyzes how women's bodies became a subject and object of modern bio-power by examining the history of women's reproductive health in Japan between the seventeenth century and the mid-twentieth century. Yuki Terazawa combines Foucauldian theory and feminist ideas with in-depth h...

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Hlavní autor: Terazawa, Yuki (Autor)
Médium: Elektronický zdroj E-kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Vydání:1st ed. 2018.
Edice:Genders and Sexualities in History
Témata:
Japan-History.
History.
Sociology.
Civilization-History.
Medicine-History.
ISBN:9783319730844
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Obsah:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Chapter 2. The Reproductive Body of the Goseihô School
  • Chaper 3. Changing Perceptions of the Female Body: The Rise of the Kagawa School of Obstetrics
  • Chapter 4. The State, Midwives, Expectant Mothers, and Childbirth Reforms from the Meiji through the Early Showa Period (1868-1930s)
  • Chapter 5. Women's Health Reforms in Japan at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
  • Chapter 6. Knowledge, Power, and New Maternal Health Policies (1918-1945)
  • Chapter 7. Epilogue
  • Index.

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