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Coed Revolution: The Female Student in the Japanese New Left
Contributor(s): Schieder, Chelsea Szendi (Author)

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 ISBN: 1478011459     ISBN-13: 9781478011453
Publisher: Duke University Press
OUR PRICE: $25.60  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: February 2021
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Asia - Japan
- Social Science | Women's Studies
- Political Science
Dewey: 320.082
LCCN: 2020029551
Physical Information: 0.48" H x 6" W x 9" L (0.68 lbs) 224 pages
 
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In the 1960s, a new generation of university-educated youth in Japan challenged forms of capitalism and the state. In Coed Revolution Chelsea Szendi Schieder recounts the crucial stories of Japanese women's participation in these protest movements led by the New Left through the early 1970s. Women were involved in contentious politics to an unprecedented degree, but they and their concerns were frequently marginalized by men in the movement and the mass media, and the movement at large is often memorialized as male and masculine. Drawing on stories of individual women, Schieder outlines how the media and other activists portrayed these women as icons of vulnerability and victims of violence, making women central to discourses about legitimate forms of postwar political expression. Schieder disentangles the gendered patterns that obscured radical women's voices to construct a feminist genealogy of the Japanese New Left, demonstrating that student activism in 1960s Japan cannot be understood without considering the experiences and representations of these women.
 
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