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Coed Revolution: The Female Student in the Japanese New Left

En octobre 2018, le Centre de recherches sur la Japon a accueilli  Chelsea Szendi Schieder (Aoyama Gakuin) pour une conférence exceptionnelle intitulée Throw out your books: The Legacies of Japan’s 1968. 

Aujourd’hui, nous nous réjouissons de la publication de l’ouvrage dont nous avons eu un avant-goût il y a deux ans, aux éditions Duke University Press en février 2021. L’introduction de ce livre est téléchargeable sur le site de l’éditeur.

Resumé:

In the 1960s, a new generation of university-educated youth in Japan challenged forms of capitalism and the state. In Coed Revolution Chelsea Szendi Schieder recounts the crucial stories of Japanese women’s participation in these protest movements led by the New Left through the early 1970s. Women were involved in contentious politics to an unprecedented degree, but they and their concerns were frequently marginalized by men in the movement and the mass media, and the movement at large is often memorialized as male and masculine. Drawing on stories of individual women, Schieder outlines how the media and other activists portrayed these women as icons of vulnerability and victims of violence, making women central to discourses about legitimate forms of postwar political expression. Schieder disentangles the gendered patterns that obscured radical women’s voices to construct a feminist genealogy of the Japanese New Left, demonstrating that student activism in 1960s Japan cannot be understood without considering the experiences and representations of these women.

Duke University Press
Février 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4780-1042-5
224 p.

Yasuko D'Hulst

Ingénieure d'études, Chargée de valorisation scientifique

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OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Yasuko D'Hulst (9 décembre 2020). Coed Revolution: The Female Student in the Japanese New Left. Carnets du Centre Japon. Consulté le 13 mai 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/ma4w


Yasuko D'Hulst

Ingénieure d'études, Chargée de valorisation scientifique