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Treacherous women of imperial Japan : patriarchal fictions, patricidal fantasies /
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1997.
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| Colección: | Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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"--Publisher's description |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 282 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-276) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0585455716 9780585455716 0203448766 9780203448762 9786610109173 6610109176 9781134696192 1134696191 9781134696147 1134696140 9781134696185 1134696183 9781138986138 1138986135 |