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SUMMARY:Reading Chastity: 1930s Feminism and Japanese Popular Literature
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 Presented by: Professor Michiko Suzuki Assistant 
 Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures,\n
 Indiana 
 University Bloomington.\n
 From the 
 mid 1930s in Japan, "women's rights" activism 
 focusing on gender equality and suffrage began 
 to decline, while "mothers' rights" activism 
 promoting legal protection for mothers became 
 increasingly prominent.  In order to expand 
 rights for women, feminist groups strategically 
 emphasized gender difference (reproduction, 
 caregiving) as critical to national wartime 
 interests.  This shift in mainstream feminism 
 ultimately redefined the relationship 
 between woman and nation until the end of the 
 Fifteen Year War (1931-45).\n
         In this 
 talk I focus on one of the most popular novels 
 of the 1930s, _The Husband's Chastity_ (1936-37) 
 by Yoshiya Nobuko. By exploring issues 
 such as chastity and motherhood, the novel profoundly 
 engages with questions of gender equality 
 and difference, of vital interest to both 
 feminists and society at large. This popular 
 work examines critical ideas surrounding 
 sexuality and gender identity and provides an 
 important window into complex views of social 
 progress in mid to late 1930s Japan.\n
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 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: Asian Studies Center\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: http://asianstudies.msu.edu\n
 Contact phone: 517-353-1680\n
LOCATION:303 International Center
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