Author : Sumiko Iwao
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 10,56 MB
Release : 1998-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1439106134
Westerners and Japanese men have a vivid mental image of Japanese women as dependent, deferential, and devoted to their families--anything but ambitious. In fact, the author shows, Japanese women hold equal and sometimes even more powerful positions than men in many spheres.
Author : Bettina Liebowitz Knapp
Publisher :
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 27,46 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Anne E. Imamura
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 42,97 MB
Release : 1996-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520202634
Re-Imaging Japanese Women takes a revealing look at women whose voices have only recently begun to be heard in Japanese society: politicians, practitioners of traditional arts, writers, radicals, wives, mothers, bar hostesses, department store and blue-collar workers. This unique collection of essays gives a broad, interdisciplinary view of contemporary Japanese women while challenging readers to see the development of Japanese women's lives against the backdrop of domestic and global change. These essays provide a "second generation" analysis of roles, issues and social change. The collection brings up to date the work begun in Gail Lee Bernstein's Recreating Japanese Women, 1600-1945 (California, 1991), exploring disparities between the current range of images of Japanese women and the reality behind the choices women make.
Author : Barbara Sato
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 31,28 MB
Release : 2003-04-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780822330448
DIVA study of the "modern" woman in Japan before World War II./div
Author : NATSUKO. FUKUE
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 27,42 MB
Release : 2017-01-27
Category :
ISBN : 9781361476987
This dissertation, ""Young, Cute and Sexy: Constructing Images of Japanese Women in Hong Kong Print Media"" by Natsuko, Fukue, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: Abstract of thesis entitled "Young, Cute and Sexy: Constructing Images of Japanese Women in Hong Kong Print Media" Submitted by Natsuko FUKUE for the Degree of Master of Philosophy at The University of Hong Kong in August 2007 Young people in Hong Kong seem to have fixed images of Japanese women: young, cute and sexy. In fact, these images are particularly prevalent in Chinese-language print media in Hong Kong today. Running articles on young, cute and sexy Japanese female celebrities repetitively in print media leads Hong Kong audience to construct stereotypical images of Japanese women. In order to investigate how images of young, cute and sexy Japanese women have developed in Hong Kong print media, I examined Chinese-language newspapers from 1955 to 2005, and a women's fashion magazine from 2000 to 2005. Portraying images of young and cute Japanese women in Hong Kong print media began when Japanese female stars changed from Hollywood-style glamour to approachable girls-next-door in the 1970s. Between the mid-1950s and 1960s, Chinese-language newspaper Wah Kiu Yat Po, which had the largest circulation during this period, ran articles of unattainable Japanese beauties. However, as cinema was replaced by television as a major medium of entertainment, young, approachable and cute stars appeared in Japanese media. Consequently, images of Japanese women in Hong Kong print media shifted from beauties to cuties. The rise of young people's consumption power in Hong Kong in the late 1970s also played a key role in slicing out images of young and cute Japanese women. Thanks to the economic development towards the late 1970s, young Hong Kong people started to constitute one of the major forces of popular culture consumers and the demand for more entertainment increased. However, since there were not many young local stars in Hong Kong, popular culture for young people was brought from Japan to fill in the void. Along with popular culture, image of approachable and cute idols were stripped from Japan. Aside from constructing Japanese women's image as young and cute, Hong Kong print media have been framing them as sexy especially after the launch of the mass-circulated Chinese-language newspaper Apple Daily in 1995. In order to grab attention from audiences, consumer-driven Apple Daily put images of sexy Japanese women which are originally from weekly magazines mainly for Japanese salary men over 30 years old. In Japan, young, cute and sexy women constitute only a part of various Japanese women's images. However, other types of Japanese female stars such as comediennes, MCs, TV personalities in variety shows, and mature actresses and singers do not appear in Hong Kong print media. In Hong Kong, images of young, cute and sexy women are portrayed as though it were the entire images of female celebrities in Japan. Many Hong Kong people do not seem to be aware that there are a number of Japanese celebrities who do not actually fit in these fixed images frequently found in print media. As my research has shown, the construction of Japanese women's stereotypical images has been evolving in an interactive and unconscious process between Hong Kong print media and the audience. DOI: 10.5353/th_b3955888 Subjects: Women - Japan Women in mass media - China - Hong Kong
Author : Barbara Ambros
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,83 MB
Release : 2015-05-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1479827622
A comprehensive history of women in Japanese religious traditions Scholars have widely acknowledged the persistent ambivalence with which the Japanese religious traditions treat women. Much existing scholarship depicts Japan’s religious traditions as mere means of oppression. But this view raises a question: How have ambivalent and even misogynistic religious discourses on gender still come to inspire devotion and emulation among women? In Women in Japanese Religions, Barbara R. Ambros examines the roles that women have played in the religions of Japan. An important corrective to more common male-centered narratives of Japanese religious history, this text presents a synthetic long view of Japanese religions from a distinct angle that has typically been discounted in standard survey accounts of Japanese religions. Drawing on a diverse collection of writings by and about women, Ambros argues that ambivalent religious discourses in Japan have not simply subordinated women but also given them religious resources to pursue their own interests and agendas. Comprising nine chapters organized chronologically, the book begins with the archeological evidence of fertility cults and the early shamanic ruler Himiko in prehistoric Japan and ends with an examination of the influence of feminism and demographic changes on religious practices during the “lost decades” of the post-1990 era. By viewing Japanese religious history through the eyes of women, Women in Japanese Religions presents a new narrative that offers strikingly different vistas of Japan’s pluralistic traditions than the received accounts that foreground male religious figures and male-dominated institutions.
Author : Elena Tajima Creef
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 34,46 MB
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0252053397
Images of Japanese and Japanese American women can teach us what it meant to be visible at specific moments in history. Elena Tajima Creef employs an Asian American feminist vantage point to examine ways of looking at indigenous Japanese Ainu women taking part in the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition; Japanese immigrant picture brides of the early twentieth century; interned Nisei women in World War II camps; and Japanese war brides who immigrated to the United States in the 1950s. Creef illustrates how an against-the-grain viewing of these images and other archival materials offers textual traces that invite us to reconsider the visual history of these women and other distinct historical groups. As she shows, using an archival collection’s range as a lens and frame helps us discover new intersections between race, class, gender, history, and photography. Innovative and engaging, Shadow Traces illuminates how photographs shape the history of marginalized people and outlines a method for using such materials in interdisciplinary research.
Author : Bettina Liebowitz Knapp
Publisher :
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 35,38 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Gail Lee Bernstein
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 29,69 MB
Release : 1991-07-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0520070178
In thirteen wide-ranging essays, scholars and students of Asian and women's studies will find a vivid exploration of how female roles and feminine identity have evolved over 350 years, from the Tokugawa era to the end of World War II. Starting from the premise that gender is not a biological given, but is socially constructed and culturally transmitted, the authors describe the forces of change in the construction of female gender and explore the gap between the ideal of womanhood and the reality of Japanese women's lives. Most of all, the contributors speak to the diversity that has characterized women's experience in Japan. This is an imaginative, pioneering work, offering an interdisciplinary approach that will encourage a reconsideration of the paradigms of women's history, hitherto rooted in the Western experience.
Author : Naomi Moriyama
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 26,43 MB
Release : 2005-11-08
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0440336015
What if there were a land where people lived longer than anywhere else on earth, the obesity rate was the lowest in the developed world, and women in their forties still looked like they were in their twenties? Wouldn't you want to know their extraordinary secret? Japanese-born Naomi Moriyama reveals the secret to her own high-energy, successful lifestyle–and the key to the enduring health and beauty of Japanese women–in this exciting new book. The Japanese have the pleasure of eating one of the most delicious, nutritious, and naturally satisfying cuisines in the world without denial, without guilt…and, yes, without getting fat or looking old. As a young girl living in Tokyo, Naomi Moriyama grew up in the food utopia of the world, where fresh, simple, wholesome fare is prized as one of the greatest joys of life. She also spent much time basking in that other great center of Japanese food culture: her mother Chizuko's Tokyo kitchen. Now she brings the traditional secrets of her mother's kitchen to you in a book that embodies the perfect marriage of nature and culinary wisdom–Japanese home-style cooking. If you think you've eaten Japanese food, you haven't tasted anything yet. Japanese home-style cooking isn't just about sushi and raw fish but good, old-fashioned everyday-Japanese-mom's cooking that's stood the test of time–and waistlines–for decades. Reflected in this unique way of cooking are the age-old traditional values of family and the abiding Japanese love of simplicity, nature, and good health. It's the kind of food that millions of Japanese women like Naomi eat every day to stay healthy, slim, and youthful while pursuing an energetic, successful, on-the-go lifestyle. Even better, it's fast, it's easy, and you can start with something as simple as introducing brown rice to your diet. You'll begin feeling the benefits that keep Japanese women among the youngest-looking in the world after your very next meal! If you're tired of counting calories, counting carbs, and counting on being disappointed with diets that don't work and don't satisfy, it's time to discover one of the best-kept and most delicious secrets for a healthier, slimmer, and long-living lifestyle. It's time to discover the Japanese fountain of youth….
