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Women in Love and Hate in 1960s Japan: Re-reading Ariyoshi Sawako's The Doctor's Wife

Hartley, B ORCID: 0000-0002-9880-5485 2017 , 'Women in Love and Hate in 1960s Japan: Re-reading Ariyoshi Sawako's The Doctor's Wife' , Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific, vol. 40 , pp. 1-14 .

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Abstract

Throughout much of the twentieth century, in both the prewar and postwar eras, the perfect family inJapan was hegemonically posited on the presence of a woman who—either as wife or mother—wasrequired to suppress or erase her desire. For the male, on the contrary, taking a 'concubine'—or enteringinto a similar relationship with a woman who was not his legal wife—was de rigueur in that it announcedto the world not merely sexual potency, but, also economic and social masculine success.

Item Type: Article
Authors/Creators:Hartley, B
Keywords: Japan, Ariyoshi Sawako, The Doctor's Wife, History
Journal or Publication Title: Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific
Publisher: Australian National University * Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Gender Relations Centre
ISSN: 1440-9151
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Copyright 2017 the Author and editors of Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific

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