Editors:
- Translates recent achievements in gender and family issues in Japanese economic history for a wide readership
- Focuses on activities of ordinary Japanese women, their contribution to economic development, and changes in their lives
- Combines demography, anthropometrics, labour economics, and comparative studies for historiography of gender and family in Japan
Part of the book series: Monograph Series of the Socio-Economic History Society, Japan (MSSEHSJ)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Perspective on the History of Women and Family in Japanese Economic Development
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Front Matter
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Book Reviews
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book is the 6th volume of the Monograph Series of the Socio-Economic History Society, Japan. The book focuses on how economic developments changed the everyday lives of ordinary women in early-modern and modern Japan. Different from precedent gender studies, the spotlight here is on the daily activities and structural positions of women rather than feminist movements or activities of elite women. Using demography, anthropometrics, and labour economics, this book explicates childcare, physical development of girls, and women’s labour migration. The dynamics of ordinary women in prewar Japan may change deep-rooted images of women as oppressed beings. Using quantitative data multi-dimensionally with the latest statistical analysis methods, this book shows how Japanese economic historians can contribute to historians of gender and family who are interested in early-modern and modern Japan.
The first part consists of four chapters that discuss women migrant workers in the Tokugawa period, women’s work, and family strategies in the underdeveloped regions of the country, conflicts between child-rearing and women’s work on family farms, and living standards of teenaged girls in early twentieth-century Japan. Those chapters provide a bridge between economic historians and feminist historians and articulate new research fields for both. The second part, comprising four book reviews, illustrates how the gender concept has been adopted in family and gender historiography in Japan.
Editors and Affiliations
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Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan
Nobuko Okuda
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Faculty of Economics and Business, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
Tetsuhiko Takai
About the editors
Nobuko Okuda is a professor of Nagoya City University. She obtained a Ph.D. in social history from the University of Warwick in 1984. Her main research field is the gender and social history of modern and contemporary Britain.
Tetsuhiko Takai is an associate professor of economic history at Hokkaido University. He obtained a Ph.D. in social science from Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in 1999. His main research field is the economic and business history of France and Francophone Asia-Africa from the nineteenth century onwards.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Gender and Family in Japan
Editors: Nobuko Okuda, Tetsuhiko Takai
Series Title: Monograph Series of the Socio-Economic History Society, Japan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9909-1
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Socio-Economic History Society, Japan 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-9908-4Published: 11 December 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-9911-4Published: 15 January 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-9909-1Published: 30 November 2019
Series ISSN: 2364-2394
Series E-ISSN: 2364-2408
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 150
Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Economic History, History of Japan, Demography, Gender and Economics