Gerteis, Christopher (2007) 'The Erotic and the Vulgar: Visual Culture and Organized Labor's Critique of U.S. Hegemony in Occupied Japan.' Critical Asian Studies, 39 (1). pp. 3-34.
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Abstract
This essay engages the colonial legacy of postwar Japan by arguing that the political cartoons produced as part of the postwar Japanese labor movement’s critique of U.S. cultural hegemony illustrate how gendered discourses underpinned, and sometimes undermined, the ideologies formally represented by visual artists and the organizations that funded them. A significant component of organized labor’s propaganda rested on a corpus of visual media that depicted women as icons of Japanese national culture. Japan’s most militant labor unions were propagating anti-imperialist discourses that invoked an engendered/endangered nation that accentuated the importance of union roles for men by subordinating, then eliminating, union roles for women.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| SOAS Departments & Centres: | Departments and Subunits > School of History, Religions & Philosophies > Department of History Legacy Departments > Faculty of Languages and Cultures > Centre for Gender Studies Regional Centres and Institutes > SOAS Japan Research Centre Legacy Departments > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Department of History |
| ISSN: | 14672715 |
| Copyright Statement: | Published by Taylor & Frances. © 2007 BCAS |
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier): | https://doi.org/10.1080/14672710601171392 |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Nov 2011 16:05 |
| URI: | https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/12639 |
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