In:
Comparative Studies in Society and History, Cambridge University Press (CUP), Vol. 28, No. 4 ( 1986-10), p. 690-714
Abstract:
The history of women is different from that of men. Women's history is the highlighting of the cultural construction of gender, the ways in which “men” and “women” are defined in considerable autonomy from biological males and females. The culturally constructed gender system interacts with a society's political system in ways that are just beginning to be explored.1 At the same time, scholars also find their definitions of national states to be in flux. Criticizing both Weberian and Marxist traditions of analysis of the state, Charles Bright and Susan Harding have stressed the open-ended, continuous, and contingent interplay between state structures and initiatives on the one hand, and social movements on the other.2 It is an auspicious time to reconsider the relationships between women and the state in cross-cultural perspective. Here I will examine the women's suffrage movement in Japan (1919–31 ) in its political context in order to encourage comparison with other women's suffrage movements, and to re-examine the interwar Japanese state from the viewpoint of one of its least-studied challengers.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0010-4175
,
1475-2999
DOI:
10.1017/S0010417500014171
Language:
English
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publication Date:
1986
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202331-3
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0
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10
