| 释义 |
- Early life
- Career
- Selected works
- References Citations Bibliography
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| native_name = 金井淑子
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| birth_place = Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
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| nationality = Japanese
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}}Kanai Yoshiko ({{lang-ja|金井淑子}}, born 1944) is Japanese academic and feminist theorist. She explored the complexities of the feminist movements in Japan and the difficulty in launching women's studies in a society bound by dualistic definitions of gender. Coining the phrase "housewife feminism", she addressed how Japanese society had attempted to appease women without addressing the underlying systemic problems that continued to foster inequality. Early lifeKanai Yoshiko was born in 1944 in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. She graduated from the University of Tokyo (UT) with a degree in literature and philosophy in 1967 and went on to further her education at UT, earning a master's degree education and ethics.{{sfn|Women's Action Network|2016}} CareerKanai began her career at the newly established Nagaoka Women's Junior College in 1971. She was one of the first academics in Japan to focus on women's studies. She remained at Nagaoka Junior College until 1999, when she accepted a position at Yokohama National University in the Human Sciences Department. She reached the university's mandatory retirement barrier in 2010 and took a post in the philosophy and letters department at Rissho University, from which she retired in 2015.{{sfn|Women's Action Network|2016}} Kanai was most known as a specialist in gender studies and ethics, writing numerous books analyzing the feminist movement in Japan and its limitations.{{sfn|AMPO Japan-Asia Quarterly Review|2015|p=x}}{{sfn|Chalmers|2003|p=35}} She coined the phrase "housewife feminism" to refer to a particular type of issues-based feminism, where the official response establishes quotas and training to counteract imbalances, but does nothing to address the underlying systemic biases.{{sfn|AMPO Japan-Asia Quarterly Review|2015|pp=20-21}}{{sfn|Smith|2013|pp=160-161}} She argued that rather than giving women real power for their own development, the focus of identity politics on nationalist and traditional aims provided pacifiers, such as men taking on more household duties, and led to continued co-opting of women's ability to define themselves and direct policies which affected them.{{sfn|Loftus|1997}} In turn, she found that no radical feminist movement developed in Japan, because women readily accepted a binary gender model and succumbed to pressure to define themselves in the role of wife.{{sfn|Chalmers|2003|p=35}} By accepting traditional roles, Japanese motherhood is glorified and a one-size-fits-all approach is used to address issues.{{sfn||Liddle|Nakajimo|2000|p=11}} She has noted that the failure to grasp that "…equality of sexual power [is] a human right of women and sexual violence against women [is] a violation of human rights" was a stumbling block to women's empowerment.{{sfn|Smith|2013|p=161}} Selected works- {{cite book|title=転機に立つフェミニズム|date=1985|publisher=每日新聞社|location=Tokyo, Japan|oclc=568172176|language=Japanese|trans-title=Feminism at a turning point}}
- {{cite book|title=ポストモダン・フェミニズム: 差異と女性|date=1989|publisher=Keisō Shobō|location=Tōkyō|isbn=978-4-326-65111-5|edition=Dai 1-han.|language=Japanese|trans-title=Postmodern feminism—Differences and women}}
- {{cite book|title=女性学の練習問題: "Hanako"と"婦人" のはざまで|date=1991|publisher=明石書店|location=Tokyo, Japan|oclc=959640730 |language=Japanese|trans-title=The practice of women's studies: "Hanako" and "Lady"}}
- {{cite book|title=フェミニズム問題の転換|date=1992|publisher=Keisō Shobō|location=Tokyo, Japan|isbn=978-4-326-65142-9|edition=Dai 1-han.|language=Japanese|trans-title=The transformation of the feminist problem}}
- {{cite book|title=女性学の挑戦: 家父長制・ジェンダー・身体性へ|date=1997|publisher=Akashi Shoten|location=Tokyo, Japan|isbn=978-4-750-30926-2|language=Japanese|trans-title=The challenge of women's studies—patriarchy, gender and physicality}}
- {{cite book|title=身体のエシックス/ポリティクス―倫理学とフェミニズムの交叉|date=2002|publisher=Nakanishiya shuppan|location=Kyoto, Japan|isbn=978-4-888-48723-8|language=Japanese|trans-title=The Ethics of the Body: The crossover between ethics and feminism|postscript=. (coauthor: Makoto Hosoya)}}
- {{cite book|title=ファミリー・トラブル―近代家族/ジェンダーのゆくえ|date=2006|publisher=Akashi Shoten|location=Tokyo, Japan|isbn=978-4-750-32444-9|edition=Shohan.|language=Japanese|trans-title=Family trouble—Modern family / Gender's future}}
- {{cite book|title=異なっていられる社会を―女性学／ジェンダー研究の視座|date=2008|publisher=Akashi Shoten|location=Tokyo, Japan|isbn=978-4-750-32724-2|edition=Shohan.|language=Japanese|trans-title=Different societies: Women's Studies/Gender research Perspectives}}
- {{cite book|title=身体とアイデンティティ・トラブル―ジェンダー/セックスの二元論を超えて|date=2008|publisher=Akashi Shoten|location=Tokyo, Japan|isbn=978-4-750-32769-3|edition=Shohan.|language=Japanese|trans-title=Body and Identity Troubles-gender/sex beyond dualism}}
- {{cite book|title=依存と自立の倫理: 女/母〉の身体性から|date=2011|publisher=Nakanishiya Shuppan|location=Kyoto, Japan|isbn=978-4-779-50498-3|edition=Shohan.|language=Japanese|trans-title=Ethics of Dependence and Independence: From the physical nature of woman/mother}}
- {{cite book|title=倫理学とフェミニズム: ジェンダー、身体、他者をめぐるジレンマ|date=2013|publisher=Nakanishiya Shuppan|location=Kyoto, Japan|isbn=978-4-779-50741-0|language=Japanese|trans-title=Ethics and Feminism: Gender, Body, Dilemma of Others}}
- {{cite book|editor-last=AMPO Japan-Asia Quarterly Review|title=Voices from the Japanese Women's Movement|year=2015|publisher=Routledge|edition=2nd|location=London, England|isbn=978-1-317-45251-5|chapter=Issues for Japanese Feminism|pages=3-22}}
References CitationsBibliography{{refbegin|30em}}- {{cite book|ref=harv|editor-last=AMPO Japan-Asia Quarterly Review|title=Voices from the Japanese Women's Movement|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9ezqBgAAQBAJ&pg=PR10|year=2015|publisher=Routledge|location=London, England|isbn=978-1-317-45251-5}}
- {{cite book|ref=harv|last=Chalmers|first=Sharon|title=Emerging Lesbian Voices from Japan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ztSB2k_sG2gC&pg=PA35|year=2003|publisher=Routledge|location=London, England|isbn=978-1-135-78786-8}}
- {{cite book|ref=harv|last1=Liddle|first1=Joanne|last2=Nakajimo|first2=Sachiko|title=Rising Suns, Rising Daughters: Gender, Class and Power in Japan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X7h_6gCRuAUC&pg=PA11|year=2000|publisher=Zed Books|location=London, England|isbn=978-1-85649-879-1}}
- {{cite web|ref=harv|last1=Loftus|first1=Ronald|title=Review: AMPO--Japan Asia Quarterly Review, ed. Voices from the Japanese Women's Movement: Ampo Japan-Asia Quarterly Review. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1996|url=http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=1182|website=H-Net|publisher=Humanities & Social Sciences Online, Michigan State University|accessdate=23 March 2018|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160311014131/http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=1182|archivedate=11 March 2016|location=East Lansing, Michigan|date=August 1997}}
- {{cite book|ref=harv|last=Smith|first=Bardwell L.|title=Narratives of Sorrow and Dignity: Japanese Women, Pregnancy Loss, and Modern Rituals of Grieving|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gJEVDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA161|year=2013|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford, England|isbn=978-0-19-994215-2}}
- {{cite web|ref={{harvid|Women's Action Network|2016}}|author=|title=金井淑子最終講義：立正大学,「ウーマン・リブから“ポスト”フェミニズムへ―女性主体の「声の場」に、臨床的まなざしを向けてー」|url=https://wan.or.jp/article/show/6815|website=Women's Action Network|publisher=法人ウィメンズ アクション ネットワーク|accessdate=23 March 2018|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170215031633/https://wan.or.jp/article/show/6815|archivedate=15 February 2017|location=Tokyo, Japan|language=Japanese|date=16 August 2016|trans-title=Kanai Yoshiko Final Lecture: Rissho University, "From 'Women's Lib' to Post-Feminism—A Clinical Gaze towards a 'Female-Oriented' Vocal Place"}}
{{refend}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Kanai, Yoshiko}} 9 : 1944 births|Living people|People from Yokosuka, Kanagawa|University of Tokyo alumni|Yokohama National University faculty|Rissho University faculty|Japanese feminists|Japanese academics|Gender studies |