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SUMMARY:Asian Studies Lecture Series Presents: Akiko Takenaka
DESCRIPTION:\nThe relationships among motherhood\, peace activism\, and
women’s rights shifted in the politically conservative climate of the Co
ld War decades. With a focus on the concept of bosei\, generally underst
ood to be the “motherly” qualities that are supposedly inherent to women
\, the talk will examine how popular perceptions of the mother\, the chi
ld\, and the mother-child relationship gradually evolved to create the i
mage that mothers\, more than anyone else\, protect children from war. T
his image did not result simply from a mothers’ desire to keep their chi
ldren safe\, nor was it the outcome of the Japanese experience of the As
ia-Pacific War in which many mothers became widowed or lost their childr
en. I argue that the maternal focus of Japanese women’s peace activism e
merged from a convergence of various interests\, including the security
alliance between Japan and the United States\, Japan’s Cold War-era poli
tical strategies\, and Japanese women’s fight for increased rights.\n\nF
or more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/asia-lecture-series-aki
ko-takenaka/
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The relationshi
ps among motherhood, peace activism, and women’s rights shifted in the p
olitically conservative climate of the Cold War decades. With a focus on
the concept of bosei, generally understood to be the “motherly” qualiti
es that are supposedly inherent to women, the talk will examine how popu
lar perceptions of the mother, the child, and the mother-child relations
hip gradually evolved to create the image that mothers, more than anyone
else, protect children from war. This image did not result simply from
a mothers’ desire to keep their children safe, nor was it the outcome of
the Japanese experience of the Asia-Pacific War in which many mothers b
ecame widowed or lost their children. I argue that the maternal focus of
Japanese women’s peace activism emerged from a convergence of various i
nterests, including the security alliance between Japan and the United S
tates, Japan’s Cold War-era political strategies, and Japanese women’s f
ight for increased rights.
For more details: https://events.
la.psu.edu/event/asia-lecture-series-akiko-takenaka/
LOCATION:302 Pond Laboratory
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