Treacherous Women of Imperial Japan : Patriarchal Fictions, Patricidal Fantasies
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
ISBN-10
1138986135
ISBN-13
9781138986138
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 28th, 2016
Print length
292 Pages
Weight
395 grams
Dimensions
21.40 x 13.50 x 3.10 cms
Product Classification:
Regional studiesAsian historySociety & culture: generalPolitics & government
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An inspiring analysis of events surrounding two women's attempted assassination of the Emperor of Japan, and the separate penalties faced by these women both in terms of their death sentences and the wider context surrounding their lives.
Kanno Suga and Kaneko Fumika were both found guilty on different occasions in 1911 and 1926 of conspiring to assassinate the Japanese emperor. Kanno was executed and Kaneko hanged herself whilst in prison, but both women maintained their defiance of the state even in the face of death.
Through examination of their own life stories and writings, Helene Bowen Raddeker brings to life the women''s own interpretations of their lives and their attitudes to death, with the associations of political martyrdom, heroism and notions of immortality. She finds that their self-presentations became weapons in an ideological war of words about social and political realities and their deaths were a means of self-empowerment within their historical context.
Through examination of their own life stories and writings, Helene Bowen Raddeker brings to life the women''s own interpretations of their lives and their attitudes to death, with the associations of political martyrdom, heroism and notions of immortality. She finds that their self-presentations became weapons in an ideological war of words about social and political realities and their deaths were a means of self-empowerment within their historical context.
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