Cold War Encounters in Us-Occupied Okinawa: Women, Militarized Domesticity, and Transnationalism in East Asia

ISBN-13: 9781107438811 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 247 str.

Mire Koikari

Opis

This book examines roles of gender, race and nation in the geopolitics of Cold War East Asia on the Island of Okinawa.

Recenzje

'[Koikari's] book constitutes an important corrective to the existing literature on occupation-era Japan and Okinawa, and will hopefully usher in additional studies that follow its lead …' Ryan Masaaki Yokota, Social Science Japan Journal

Spis treści

1. Rethinking gender and militarism in Cold War Okinawa; 2. Cultivating feminine affinity and affiliation with Americans: Cold War people-to-people encounters and women's club activities; 3. 'The world is our campus': domestic science and Cold War transnationalism between Michigan and Okinawa; 4. Building a bridge across the Pacific: domestic training and Cold War technical interchange between Okinawa and Hawaii; 5. Mobilizing homes, empowering women: Okinawan home economists and Cold War domestic education; 6. Cultivating feminine affinity and affiliation with the homeland: grassroots women's exchange between mainland Japan and Okinawa; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.