Creating Socialist Women in Japan: Gender, Labour and Activism, 1900-1937 Book

	List of Illustrations
	List of Figures
	Acknowledgments
1	Introduction	1
2	Imperial Subjects	22
	Liberalism and Gender	24
	The Constitutional System	30
	Gendered Subjecthood	31
	Discourses of Family and State	37
3	Wives	42
	The Conjunction of Feminism and Socialism	43
	Women in the Socialist Movement	48
	The Socialist Women's Seminar	51
	Socialist Views of Marriage and the Family	52
	Imagining New Relationships	55
	Socialists and the Patriotic Women's Association	57
	The Campaign for the Repeal of Article Five	62
	Two Incidents	66
	Beyond the Heiminsha Family	67
4	Mothers	70
	Factory Legislation	74
	The Yuaikai Women's Division	78
	The New Women	80
	The Bluestockings and the Socialists	83
	'The True New Woman'	84
	The Motherhood Protection Debate	86
	Discourses of Protection	91
	Speaking as a Mother	93
5	Workers	95
	Women in Industry	100
	May Day and International Women's Day	102
	Women's Special Demands	105
	Organizing Women in the Yuaikai/Sodomei	108
	The Hyogikai Debates on the Women's Division	111
	Women in the Nichiro Unions	115
	Imagining Women Workers	116
	Striking Women	124
	From Worker to Activist	126
6	Activists	128
	Suffragism and Electoral Politics	131
	Women's Leagues of Proletarian Parties	132
	Women in the Rono Faction	136
	The Proletarian Women's League	138
	Women in the Nichiro Faction	138
	Social Democratic Women	139
	The Social Masses Women's League	141
	Co-operation between Socialists and Suffragists	141
	The Manchurian Incident	144
	The Mother and Child Protection Act	145
	Debates with Anarchist Women	148
	The Repressive State	150
	Women as Activists	152
7	Creating Socialist Women 1900-1937	154
	Defining a Socialist and Feminist Position	155
	Organizing Socialist Women	159
	Imaging Socialist Women	162
	Speaking Positions: From Subject to Activist	163
	Oppression, Liberation and Transformation	164
	The Rhetoric of Feminism and Socialism	167
	Notes	171
	Glossary	222
	Select Bibliography	233
	Index	245