{"product_id":"knowledge-power-and-womens-reproductive-health-in-japan-1690-1945-paperback","title":"Knowledge, Power, and Women's Reproductive Health in Japan, 1690-1945 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eYuki Terazawa\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book analyzes how women's bodies became a subject and object of modern bio-power by examining the history of women's reproductive health in Japan between the seventeenth century and the mid-twentieth century. Yuki Terazawa combines Foucauldian theory andfeminist ideas with in-depth historical research. She argues that central to the rise of bio-power and the colonization of people by this power was modern scientific taxonomies that classify people into categories of gender, race, nationality, class, age, disability, and disease. Whilediscussions of the roles played by the modern state are of critical importance to this project, significant attention is also paid to the increasing influences of male obstetricians and the parts that trained midwives and public health nurses played in the dissemination of modern powerafter the 1868 Meiji Restoration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book analyzes how women's bodies became a subject and object of modern bio-power by examining the history of women's reproductive health in Japan between the seventeenth century and the mid-twentieth century. Yuki Terazawa combines Foucauldian theory and feminist ideas with in-depth historical research. She argues that central to the rise of bio-power and the colonization of people by this power was modern scientific taxonomies that classify people into categories of gender, race, nationality, class, disability, and disease. While discussions of the roles played by the modern state are of critical importance to this project, significant attention is also paid to the increasing influences of male obstetricians and the parts that trained midwives and public health nurses played in the dissemination of modern power after the 1868 Meiji Restoration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eYuki Terazawa is Associate Professor in History at Hofstra University, USA. She has previously published 'Racializing Bodies through Science in Meiji Japan: The Rise of Race-Based Research in Gynecology' in Morris Low (ed), \u003ci\u003eBuilding a Modern Japan: Science, Technology, and Medicine in the Meiji Era and Beyond\u003c\/i\u003e (Palgrave, 2005).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 318\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.27 x 5.83 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 27, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51794715115808,"sku":"9783030103125","price":161.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/b61cb638822300e6383c57850082ec4e.webp?v=1780731817","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/knowledge-power-and-womens-reproductive-health-in-japan-1690-1945-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}