1. Introduction -- 2. Imperial Subjects. Liberalism and Gender. The Constitutional System. Gendered Subjecthood. Discourses of Family and State -- 3. Wives. The Conjunction of Feminism and Socialism. Women in the Socialist Movement. The Socialist Women's Seminar. Socialist Views of Marriage and the Family. Imagining New Relationships. Socialists and the Patriotic Women's Association. The Campaign for the Repeal of Article Five. Two Incidents. Beyond the Heiminsha Family -- 4. Mothers. Factory Legislation. The Yuaikai Women's Division. The New Women. The Bluestockings and the Socialists. 'The True New Woman'. The Motherhood Protection Debate. Discourses of Protection. Speaking as a Mother -- 5. Workers. Women in Industry. May Day and International Women's Day. Women's Special Demands. Organizing Women in the Yuaikai/Sodomei. The Hyogikai Debates on the Women's Division. Women in the Nichiro Unions. Imagining Women Workers. Striking Women. From Worker to Activist -- 6. Activists
Suffragism and Electoral Politics. Women's Leagues of Proletarian Parties. Women in the Rono Faction. The Proletarian Women's League. Women in the Nichiro Faction. Social Democratic Women. The Social Masses Women's League. Co-operation between Socialists and Suffragists. The Manchurian Incident. The Mother and Child Protection Act. Debates with Anarchist Women. The Repressive State. Women as Activists -- 7. Creating Socialist Women 1900-1937. Defining a Socialist and Feminist Position. Organizing Socialist Women. Imaging Socialist Women. Speaking Positions: From Subject to Activist. Oppression, Liberation and Transformation. The Rhetoric of Feminism and Socialism
Summary
This book tells the story of a group of women who challenged the expectations of their society in their writings and in their actions. The author surveys the development of socialist women's activism in Japan from the 1900s to the 1930s, in the broader context of the industrial and political development of modern Japan. She outlines the major socialist womens' organizations and their debates with their liberal and anarchist sisters. The book also offers close analyses of the political and creative writings of socialist women
