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  • 3 - Redefining Womanhoods

  • Sabine Frühstück, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Book:
    Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japan
    Published online:
    24 March 2022
    Print publication:
    31 March 2022, pp 70-97

  • Summary

    The beginning of the twentieth century was also an experiment in how to be female, male, or something in between – far beyond the matter of reproduction. Chapter 3, “Redefining Womanhoods,” examines the new roles some carved out for themselves amid the emerging modern mass culture in the early twentieth century. After a long period of nation- and empire-building – largely characterized by the embrace and adaptation of what became construed somewhat monolithically as “western culture” – the 1910s and 1920s experienced a shift to critical attitudes toward the West that was promoted by both conservative and progressive representatives of the intelligentsia. This chapter focuses on just how new women and modern girls (and modern boys) navigated this turbulent time, a period complicated by the dramatically increasing academic interest in knowing and, eventually, controlling women – as well as the politics of gender relations; the antagonistic relationship between nationalism, imperialism, and internationalism; and the multiple inventions of Japanese traditions

  • 21 - The Bible in North America

  • from Part III - Reception of the Bible Geographically
  • Edited by John Riches, University of Glasgow
  • Book:
    The New Cambridge History of the Bible
    Published online:
    09 June 2015
    Print publication:
    13 April 2015, pp 391-426

  • Summary

    This chapter presents the genealogy of contemporary feminist readings rather than the broad spectrum of personal names, examples and locations. The term gender-critical includes all these variants that feminist exegesis has engendered. The presupposition will be that it is epistemological changes that have made possible changes in feminist readings and inspired struggles for women's equality and liberation, not the other way round. A focus on past women's experiences gave feminist readers the key to unlock the biblical texts filtered by andocentric and access the social reality behind them, a reality far more complex than the texts allow for. The chapter focuses on how the development of mainly Western Christian feminist readings has been driven forward by changes in the reading subject, the reading position and changes in the status of the Bible. The Bible has been a political tool, a site of contestation and struggle, a weapon and a shield.