COEDS RUINING THE NATION: WOMEN, EDUCATION, AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN POSTWAR JAPANESE MEDIA (MICHIGAN MONOGRAPH SERIES IN JAPANESE STUDIES)

Book ID/图书代码： 13560019C00016

English Summary/英文概要： In the late 1800s, Japan introduced a new, sex-segregated educational system. Boys would be prepared to enter a rapidly modernizing public sphere, while girls trained to become ’good wives and wise mothers’ who would contribute to the nation by supporting their husbands and nurturing the next generation of imperial subjects. When this system was replaced by a coeducational model during the American Occupation following World War II, adults raised with gender-specific standards were afraid coeducation would cause ’moral problems’-even societal collapse. By contrast, young people generally greeted coeducation with greater composure. This is the first book in English to explore the arguments for and against coeducation as presented in newspaper and magazine articles, cartoons, student-authored school newsletters, and roundtable discussions published in the Japanese press as these reforms were being implemented. It complicates the notion of the postwar years as a moment of rupture, highlighting prewar experiments with coeducation that belied objections that the practice was a foreign imposition and therefore ’unnatural’ for Japanese culture. It also illustrates a remarkable degree of continuity between prewar and postwar models of femininity, arguing that Occupation-era guarantees of equal educational opportunity were ultimately repurposed toward a gendered division of labor that underwrote the postwar project of economic recovery. Finally, it excavates discourses of gender and sexuality underlying the moral panic surrounding coeducation to demonstrate that claims of rampant sexual deviance and other concerns were employed as disciplinary mechanisms to reinforce an ideology of harmonious gender complementarity and to dissuade women from pursuing conventionally masculine prerogatives.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 二战后在美国占领时期日本的性别隔离教育系统被男女 混合同校模式取代，然而在性别区别规范下长大的成年 人则害怕这种男女混校会导致道德问题甚至是社会崩 溃。相反，年轻人普遍都更镇定地欢迎男女混校模式。 这是第一本探讨日本媒体发表的，刊登在报纸、杂志 文章、漫画、学生创作的校报上以及圆桌讨论的关于这 些在实施的改革的各种支持和反对的观点的英文书。它 把“战后时期”这一概念复杂化为破裂的时刻，强调了掩 盖认为这种实践是外国强加因此“不适应”日本文化的反 对意见而进行的战前男女混校实验。此书也阐述了战前 和战后女性模式上很大程度的连续性。最后，它发掘围 绕着男女混合教育产生的道德恐慌的言论来论证在所有 其它担忧中，对猖獗的性变态的指控被当做纪律机制来 强化对和谐性别互补性意识形态的服从，同时劝阻女性 追求传统意义上的男性特权。

这本书会让研究日本历史和文化的学者们，甚至更广泛 意义上的研究媒体、教育、性别和性学的学者们非常 感兴趣。使用了可理解的、有趣的语言，避免术语也使 此书适用于本科课程

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About the Author/作者介绍： 茱莉娅 C. 布洛克 是埃默里大学俄罗斯和东亚语言及文化 研究系日本研究的副教授。 Julia C. Bullock is Associate Professor of Japanese Studies in the Department of Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures at Emory University.

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