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Wombs of empire : population discourses and biopolitics in modern Japan
Title
Wombs of empire : population discourses and biopolitics in modern Japan / Sujin Lee.
ISBN
9781503637016
1503637018
9781503636392
9781503637009
Publication
Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2023]
Physical Description
1 online resource ( xv, 239 pages) : illustrations
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Notes
Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 12, 2023).
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Variant and related titles
Population discourses and biopolitics in modern Japan
De Gruyter University Press eBook 2023.
Other formats
Print version: Lee, Sujin Wombs of empire Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2023
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 02, 2023
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : population (jinkō), a discursive site of en/gendering life
The population problem and utopian remedies
Voluntary motherhood : the feminist politics of birth control
Scientific and imperialist solutions to overpopulation
Building a biopolitical state : the mobilization of health for total war
"Fertile womb battalion" : the gender and racial politics of motherhood
Epilogue : the continued politics of "population problem".
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Walter de Gruyter & Co. Stanford University Press Complete 2023.
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