When the Earth is Female and the Nation is Mother: Gender,the Armed Forces and Nationalism in Indonesia |
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Authors: | Saraswati Sunindyo |
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Institution: | 1.Centre for Gender and Development Studies, University of the West Indies,Mona |
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Abstract: | Takamure Itsue has many faces following different phases of her life: poet, activist-writer, anarchist, ethnologist and historian. Throughout these transformations, Takamure maintained her feminist position. This article concentrates on her politics of love, sex and marriage, formulated and presented in the pre-war period during the time of Japanese colonial empire. A specific focus is placed on her positionality in the act of writing within the discursive field of women whose nation was colonizing others, notably Koreans. The combination of positivistic craving for ‘scientific’ history to substantiate the uxorilocal tradition of Japanese matrimony and uncritical acceptance of ‘motherhood’ as a superior virtue led her to consequently embrace Japan's colonialism. |
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