Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Terazawa, Yuki

Titel

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

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

Cham: Springer International Publishing

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This book analyzes how women's bodies became a subject and object of modern bio-powerby examining the history of women's reproductive health in Japan between the seventeenthcentury and the mid-twentieth century. Yuki Terazawa combines Foucauldian theory and feminist ideas with in-depth historical research. She argues that central to the rise of bio-powerand the colonization of people by this power was modern scientific taxonomies that classifypeople into categories of gender, race, nationality, class, age, disability, and disease. While discussions of the roles played by the modern state are of critical importance to this project, significant attention is also paid to the increasing influences of male obstetricians and the partsthat trained midwives and public health nurses played in the dissemination of modern power after the 1868 Meiji Restoration.