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Women's Bodies, Women's Minds: One Way of Rethinking Japanese Women's History
Author(s) -
Walthall Anne
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
history compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.121
H-Index - 1
ISSN - 1478-0542
DOI - 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2004.00079.x
Subject(s) - modernity , gender studies , psychology , state (computer science) , connection (principal bundle) , field (mathematics) , consumption (sociology) , psychoanalysis , sociology , aesthetics , political science , art , engineering , computer science , law , mathematics , structural engineering , algorithm , pure mathematics
We live in a world permeated with violence, yet until recently the field of Japanese studies has not focused on the connection between violence, gender, and modernity. The goal of this article is to suggest ways in which violence and gender figure in conspicuous consumption and the construction of the modern state.