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Treacherous Women of Imperial Japan: Patriarchal Fictions, Patricidal Fantasies
Contributor(s): Bowen Raddeker, Helene (Author)
ISBN: 0415171121     ISBN-13: 9780415171120
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $237.50  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: October 1997
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Annotation: Through examination of the careers and writings of two women convicted of conspiring to assassinate the Japanese emperor, this text offers insight into the women's interpretations of their lives and imminent deaths.
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Women's Studies
- History
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General
Dewey: B
LCCN: 97023328
Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
Physical Information: 1.06" H x 6.4" W x 8.12" (1.17 lbs) 292 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Japanese
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
 
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Kanno Suga and Kaneko Fumika were both found guilty on different occasions in 1911 and 1926 of conspiring to assassinate the Japanese emperor. Kanno was executed and Kaneko hanged herself whilst in prison, but both women maintained their defiance of the state even in the face of death.
Through examination of their own life stories and writings, Helene Bowen Raddeker brings to life the women's own interpretations of their lives and their attitudes to death, with the associations of political martyrdom, heroism and notions of immortality. She finds that their self-presentations became weapons in an ideological war of words about social and political realities and their deaths were a means of self-empowerment within their historical context.