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Gender, Health, and History in Modern East Asia /
This groundbreaking volume captures and analyzes the exhilarating and at times disorienting experience when scientists, government officials, educators, and the general public in East Asia tried to come to terms with the introduction of Western biological and medical sciences to the region. The nexu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2018
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Francesca Bray
- part I. Bodies beyond boundaries : evolving physical development and reproductive technologies
- 1. Gender, health, and the problem of "precocious puberty" in Meiji Japan / Izumi Nakayama
- 2. Sex in school : educating the junior high students in early Republican China / Jen-der Lee
- 3. From single motherhood to queer reproduction : access politics of assisted conception in Taiwan / Chia-ling Wu
- 4. Solving low fertility rate with technology? / Jung-ok Ha
- part II. Women producing and consuming health knowledge : embracing drugs, vitamins, and food
- 5. The Japanese patent medicine trade in East Asia : women's medicines and the tensions of empire / Susan L. Burns
- 6. Housewives as kitchen pharmacists : Dr. Chuang Shu Chih, gendered identity, and traditional medicine in East Asia / Sean Hsiang-lin Lei
- part III. Potent(ial) virility : labor, migration, and the military in the construction of masculinity
- 7. Weak men and barren women : framing beriberi/jiaoqi/kakke in modern East Asia, ca. 1830-1940 / Angela Ki Che Leung
- 8. Christine goes to China : Xie Jianshun and the discourse of sex change in Cold War Taiwan / Howard Chiang
- 9. Providing reassurance and affirmation : masculinity, militarization, and refashioning a male role in South Korean family planning, 1962 to the late 1980s / John P. DiMoia.