کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
375864 622835 2016 11 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Resilience, agency and activism: Viewing Yoshiko Yamaguchi through the feminist life course perspective
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
انعطاف پذیری، آژانس و فعالیت: دیدن یوشیکو یاماگوچی را از منظر دوره زندگی فمینیستی
کلمات کلیدی
استقلال؛ فمینیسم؛ ژاپن; سیاست;یوشیکو یاماگوچی ؛ یوشیکو اوتاکا
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه مهندسی مواد دانش مواد (عمومی)
چکیده انگلیسی


• I examine the life of Yoshiko Yamaguchi, a Japanese actress and politician.
• I conducted this analysis through the feminist life course perspective.
• Early childhood support was important in empowering Yoshiko.
• Yoshiko's dexterity in enacting agency makes her a distinctive case.
• Yoshiko successfully utilised opportunities to achieve her own political goals.

The low number of female politicians in Japan is testament to the difficulties that women face in entering the political sphere. This paper analyses the life of Japanese actress, journalist, politician and activist Yoshiko Yamaguchi (1920–2014), in terms of her political career, to contribute to a deeper understanding of the way personal choices and characteristics, socioeconomic factors, macrosocial contexts and chance events shape life paths and possibilities. As a Japanese woman in Japan-occupied Manchuria, Yoshiko developed a unique cross-cultural identity and understanding which facilitated her movement through transnational spaces and her adaptability as she renegotiated her identity within different contexts. Yoshiko is a distinctive example as she successfully drew on these experiences to achieve her political goals of raising awareness about human rights issues and the harms of conflict. This paper suggests that women can enact agency within the political sphere but that few are able to do so effectively because they lack access to resources and opportunities through which to realise their political goals.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Women's Studies International Forum - Volume 57, July–August 2016, Pages 11–21
نویسندگان
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