Knowledge, Power, and Women's Reproductive Health in Japan, 1690-1945

• Main Author: Terazawa, Yuki (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Genders and Sexualities in History
• Subjects: Japan-History.; History.; Sociology.; Civilization-History.; Medicine-History.; History of Japan.; History of Science.; Gender Studies.; Cultural History.; History of Medicine.

This 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 h...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. The Reproductive Body of the Goseihô School
• Chaper 3. Changing Perceptions of the Female Body: The Rise of the Kagawa School of Obstetrics
• Chapter 4. The State, Midwives, Expectant Mothers, and Childbirth Reforms from the Meiji through the Early Showa Period (1868-1930s)
• Chapter 5. Women's Health Reforms in Japan at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
• Chapter 6. Knowledge, Power, and New Maternal Health Policies (1918-1945)
• Chapter 7. Epilogue
• Index.