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<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>A new look at democratization, women’s rights, and the Cold War in post-World War II U.S.-occupied Japan<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/sc_add_query.cgi/7700/1935_reg.ctl" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/sc_modify_query.cgi" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/sc_checkout.cgi" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="1518_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><!--none//--><h1>Pedagogy of Democracy</h1>
<H2>Feminism and the Cold War in the U.S. Occupation of Japan</H2>
<h3>Mire Koikari</h3>
<P>cloth 1592137008 $54.50, Jun 08, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Not Yet Published Preorder</FONT>
<BR> 240 pp
6x9
4 figures
</P><BLOCKQUOTE><I><i>"The postwar history of Japan is just beginning to be written, and </i>Pedagogy of Democracy<i> examines a formative period---the U.S. Occupation, 1945-52. Koikari examines the Occupation as a raced, gendered, and classed endeavor in the larger context of the Cold War. Her fresh perspective makes this a significant book for those interested in Japanese women's history and Japanese history in general."</i>
<br><b>—Kathleen Uno</b>, Associate Professor of History at Temple University, and author of </i>Passages to Modernity: Motherhood, Childhood, and Social Reform in Early Twentieth Century Japan</I></BLOCKQUOTE>
<p><I>Pedagogy of Democracy</i> re-interprets the U.S. occupation of Japan from 1945 to 1952 as a problematic instance of Cold War feminist mobilization rather than a successful democratization of Japanese women as previously argued. By combining three fields of research—occupation, Cold War, and postcolonial feminist studies—and examining occupation records and other archival sources, Koikari argues that postwar gender reform was part of the Cold War containment strategies that undermined rather than promoted women’s political and economic rights.
<p>Koikari suggests that American and Japanese women leaders both participated in as well as resisted the ruling dynamics of race, gender, class, sexuality, and nation. Thus, <I>Pedagogy of Democracy </i>sheds new light on the complex and contradictory implications of Western feminist interventions in Asia.
<p>By applying a postcolonial feminist framework to American gender reform in the Cold War Asia-Pacific context—a subject hitherto understudied among feminist scholars—<I>Pedagogy of Democracy </i>reveals both the similarities and the differences between imperial feminisms in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
<BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2>
<P><b>Mire Koikari</b> is an Associate Professor in the Women’s Studies Program at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa.</P>
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<BR><A HREF="/tempress/history.html" TARGET="_top">History</a>
<BR><A HREF="/tempress/american.html" TARGET="_top">American Studies</a>
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