Cold War Encounters in US-Occupied Okinawa

Cold War Encounters in US-Occupied Okinawa
Author: Mire Koikari
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2015-07-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1316352226


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In this innovative and engaging study, Mire Koikari recasts the US occupation of Okinawa as a startling example of Cold War cultural interaction in which women's grassroots activities involving homes and homemaking played a pivotal role in reshaping the contours of US and Japanese imperialisms. Drawing on insights from studies of gender, Asia, America and postcolonialism, Koikari analyzes how the occupation sparked domestic education movements in Okinawa, mobilizing an assortment of women - home economists, military wives, club women, university students and homemakers - from the US, Okinawa and mainland Japan. These women went on to pursue a series of activities to promote 'modern domesticity' and build 'multicultural friendship' amidst intense militarization on the islands. As these women took their commitment to domesticity and multiculturalism onto the larger terrain of the Pacific, they came to articulate the complex intertwinement of gender, race, domesticity, empire and transnationality that existed during the Cold War.


Cold War Encounters in US-Occupied Okinawa
Language: en
Pages: 249
Authors: Mire Koikari
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-07-15 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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In this innovative and engaging study, Mire Koikari recasts the US occupation of Okinawa as a startling example of Cold War cultural interaction in which women'
Cold War Encounters in US-occupied Okinawa
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Pages: 250
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Cold War Encounters in US-Occupied Okinawa
Language: en
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Authors: Mire Koikari
Categories: Cold War
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015 - Publisher:

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Cold War Encounters in US-Occupied Okinawa
Language: en
Pages: 249
Authors: Mire Koikari
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-07-15 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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