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Author | : Susan L. Smith |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2010-10-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0252092430 |
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In the late nineteenth century, Japan's modernizing quest for empire transformed midwifery into a new woman's profession. With the rise of Japanese immigration to the United States, Japanese midwives (sanba) served as cultural brokers as well as birth attendants for Issei women. They actively participated in the creation of Japanese American community and culture as preservers of Japanese birthing customs and agents of cultural change. Japanese American Midwives reveals the dynamic relationship between this welfare state and the history of women and health. Susan L. Smith blends midwives' individual stories with astute analysis to demonstrate the impossibility of clearly separating domestic policy from foreign policy, public health from racial politics, medical care from women's caregiving, and the history of women and health from national and international politics. By setting the history of Japanese American midwives in this larger context, Smith reveals little-known ethnic, racial, and regional aspects of women's history and the history of medicine.
Author | : Stephanie D. Hinnershitz |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2021-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0812299957 |
Download Japanese American Incarceration Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Between 1942 and 1945, the U.S. government wrongfully imprisoned thousands of Japanese American citizens and profited from their labor. Japanese American Incarceration recasts the forced removal and incarceration of approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II as a history of prison labor and exploitation. Following Franklin Roosevelt's 1942 Executive Order 9066, which called for the exclusion of potentially dangerous groups from military zones along the West Coast, the federal government placed Japanese Americans in makeshift prisons throughout the country. In addition to working on day-to-day operations of the camps, Japanese Americans were coerced into harvesting crops, digging irrigation ditches, paving roads, and building barracks for little to no compensation and often at the behest of privately run businesses—all in the name of national security. How did the U.S. government use incarceration to address labor demands during World War II, and how did imprisoned Japanese Americans respond to the stripping of not only their civil rights, but their labor rights as well? Using a variety of archives and collected oral histories, Japanese American Incarceration uncovers the startling answers to these questions. Stephanie Hinnershitz's timely study connects the government's exploitation of imprisoned Japanese Americans to the history of prison labor in the United States.
Author | : Ana Johns |
Publisher | : Harlequin |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2019-05-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 148803513X |
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Oceans and decades apart, two women are inextricably bound by the secrets between them. Japan, 1957. Seventeen-year-old Naoko Nakamura’s prearranged marriage to the son of her father’s business associate would secure her family’s status in their traditional Japanese community, but Naoko has fallen for another man—an American sailor, a gaijin—and to marry him would bring great shame upon her entire family. When it’s learned Naoko carries the sailor’s child, she’s cast out in disgrace and forced to make unimaginable choices with consequences that will ripple across generations. America, present day. Tori Kovac, caring for her dying father, finds a letter containing a shocking revelation—one that calls into question everything she understood about him, her family and herself. Setting out to learn the truth behind the letter, Tori’s journey leads her halfway around the world to a remote seaside village in Japan, where she must confront the demons of the past to pave a way for redemption. In breathtaking prose and inspired by true stories from a devastating and little-known era in Japanese and American history, The Woman in the White Kimono illuminates a searing portrait of one woman torn between her culture and her heart, and another woman on a journey to discover the true meaning of home.
Author | : Mary Walker Standlee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : Midwives |
ISBN | : 9780804802215 |
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Author | : Edgar A. Porter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : HISTORY |
ISBN | : 9789462989733 |
Download Japanese Reflections on World War II and the American Occupation Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book presents an unforgettably honest account of the effects of World War II and the ensuing American occupation in Japan's Oita prefecture, from the perspective of the Japanese citizens who experienced it. Through harrowing firsthand accounts from more than forty Japanese men and women who lived in the region, we get a strikingly detailed picture of the dreadful experiences of wartime life in Japan. The interviewees are wide-ranging and include students, housewives, nurses, teachers, journalists, soldiers, sailors, Kamikaze pilots, and munitions factory workers. And their collective stories range from early, spirited support for the war on to more reflective later views in the wake of the devastating losses of friends and family members to air raids, and finally into periods of hunger and fear of the American occupiers. Detailed archival materials buttress the personal accounts, and the result is an unprecedented picture of the war as felt in a single region of Japan.
Author | : Dr. Tadashi Yoshimura |
Publisher | : Seven Stories Press |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2014-04-29 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 1609805259 |
Download Joyous Childbirth Changes the World Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
“No matter how science has progressed, childbirth, in essence, has remained unchanged from ancient times . . . [It] is the last natural process left to us,” writes internationally lauded obstetrician Dr. Tadashi Yoshimura. “The fact that it has remained unchanged means that there is truth in it.” The truth and power of birth is the subject of Dr. Yoshimura’s first book published in the United States. Yoshimura describes babies born so directly into the arms of their mothers that they do not cry, and women so transformed with pride and passion in their ability that they are joyous and forever changed. Instead of a medical emergency, Yoshimura describes birth as a transcendent and natural process that cannot be perfected, and that, when performed through the innate power of women, reveals what he calls a “mystic beauty.” Full of delightful stories of birthing women and peaceful smiling infants, and helpful tips from his childbirth preparation program, Joyous Childbirth Changes the World is a must-read for all expectant parents and those who care for them. Yoshimura’s clinic serves as a testament to the kind of compassionate birth culture that is possible if we prioritize the health and experience of women and babies.
Author | : Maggie Evans |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 768 |
Release | : 2011-07-28 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0199584672 |
Download Oxford Handbook of Midwifery Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This unique and bestselling handbook provides midwives with everything they need for successful practice. It contains concise, practical and expert guidance on all aspects of the midwife's role, from pre-conceptual advice to the final post-natal examination of the mother and baby.
Author | : University of Alberta. Research Institute for Comparative Literature and Cross-Cultural Studies |
Publisher | : Research Institute for Comparative Literature |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780921490098 |
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Asian Americans |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Mary W. Standlee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : Midwifery |
ISBN | : |
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