dc.contributor.author	Hanawa, Yukiko
dc.date.accessioned	2006-08-03T13:00:47Z
dc.date.available	2016-08-03T06:15:57Z
dc.date.issued	2006-08-03T13:00:47Z
dc.description.abstract	This dissertation explores the practice of writing women into history in the post-1945 period. My immediate area of study is with the large number of writers who adopted narratives as a subject-constitutive method in placing women in history. Marked as an "urgent" task, writing new history occupied a privileged position in a teleological narrative of emergent democratic development. Women were particularly important at the outset because of the relatively few works of history produced. In practice, writing the subject "women" into teleological narrative often meant, writing women?s history as Bildungsroman. In particular, I consider the ways in which prostitution, modernity, discourses of nationalism, and the (emerging) political subjectivity of women grounded the practice. I take, as a point of departure, the figure of native women, imagined to have hailed from the countryside and marked as embodying an un-modernized subjectivity. These women migrated to the urban centers and occupied an important place in the emergent discourse of Japanese feminism as sexually marginal and aberrant subjects (not true feminist subject) and as sexual victims of imperialism (proper subject of feminism.) Marked by the national and occupation discourses, the power of "women as subject" relied, precisely in part, on "women as simulacrum of democratic being." This framing, rather than opening up possibilities for assemblages and previously unknown alignments, occlude the history of uneven development. My reading of this material invites a direction towards a history practice of non-containment. The large volume of texts provide a rich field in which to question what it would mean to avoid making sense of the past and to tease out a practice of fragmented and incomplete history towards an indeterminate future.	en_US
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dc.identifier.other	bibid: 6476183
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1813/3423
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.subject	Feminist Practice	en_US
dc.subject	Japanese Literature	en_US
dc.subject	History Methodology and Theory	en_US
dc.title	As for the Future: Contingent Subjects and Feminist Practice of Writing Women into History	en_US
dc.type	dissertation or thesis	en_US

As for the Future: Contingent Subjects and Feminist Practice of Writing Women into History

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