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Sandra Buckley, Broken Silence: Voices of Japanese Feminism (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997), xix, 401 pp. Paperback $40.00

Sandra Buckley, Broken Silence: Voices of Japanese Feminism (Berkeley, CA: University of... 304 BOOK REVIEWS Sandra Buckley, Broken Silence: Voices of Japanese Feminism (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997), xix, 401 pp. Paperback $40.00. Through interviews (1988-1991) with ten leading feminists, and her careful selection and translation of their works, Buckley has succeeded in making the many voices of Japanese feminism accessible outside of Japan in a most vivid manner. While the format allows these women to speak in their own words, Buckley's introductions to each individual, and help- ful chronology of recent Japanese feminism, contextualizes the diverse works and provide cohesiveness to the whole. This book amply demonstrates the complexity of this subject while identifying commonly held beliefs. We meet academicians who analyze feminism in a theoretical framework, lawyers and translators concerned with control of the female body, and linguists and poets who seek to revalue the feminine in language. Aoki Yayoi posits a relationship between the imperial system and constraints imposed on women under the ie ("hierarchic household") system. Professor Ueno Chizuko locates the problem of female versus national and cultural identity in the framework of reverse Orientalism ("rejection of the Western model in the search for a Japan-specific one" p. 297). In spite of the "Aoki-Ueno http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Asian and African Studies (in 2002 continued as African and Asian Studies) Brill

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© 1998 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0021-9096
eISSN
1568-5217
DOI
10.1163/156852182X00237
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304 BOOK REVIEWS Sandra Buckley, Broken Silence: Voices of Japanese Feminism (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997), xix, 401 pp. Paperback $40.00. Through interviews (1988-1991) with ten leading feminists, and her careful selection and translation of their works, Buckley has succeeded in making the many voices of Japanese feminism accessible outside of Japan in a most vivid manner. While the format allows these women to speak in their own words, Buckley's introductions to each individual, and help- ful chronology of recent Japanese feminism, contextualizes the diverse works and provide cohesiveness to the whole. This book amply demonstrates the complexity of this subject while identifying commonly held beliefs. We meet academicians who analyze feminism in a theoretical framework, lawyers and translators concerned with control of the female body, and linguists and poets who seek to revalue the feminine in language. Aoki Yayoi posits a relationship between the imperial system and constraints imposed on women under the ie ("hierarchic household") system. Professor Ueno Chizuko locates the problem of female versus national and cultural identity in the framework of reverse Orientalism ("rejection of the Western model in the search for a Japan-specific one" p. 297). In spite of the "Aoki-Ueno

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Journal of Asian and African Studies (in 2002 continued as African and Asian Studies)Brill

Published: Jan 1, 1998

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