vbid/9783319730844

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This book analyzes how women�s bodies became a subject and object of modern bio-power�by examining the history of women�s reproductive health in Japan between the seventeenth�century and the mid-twentieth century. Yuki Terazawa combines Foucauldian theory and feminist ideas with in-depth historical research. She argues that central to the rise of bio-power�and the colonization of people by this power was modern scientific taxonomies that classify�people into categories of gender, race, nationality, class, age, disability, and disease. While discussions of the roles played by the modern state are of critical importance to this project,�significant attention is also paid to the increasing influences of male obstetricians and the parts�that trained midwives and public health nurses played in the dissemination of modern power after the 1868 Meiji Restoration.Typham this is the title: Knowledge, Power, and Women’s Reproductive Health in Japan, 1690�1945