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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on Japanese names; List of illustrations; 1 Re-thinking gender and militarism in Cold War Okinawa; Re-thinking women, home, and empire in the US occupation of Okinawa; Chapter organization; 2 Cultivating feminine affinity and affiliation with Americans: Cold War people-to-people encounters and women's club activities; USCAR, Cold War occupation, and grassroots people-to-people encounters; The USCAR Women's Club and tales of feminine friendship in Cold War Okinawa. |
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Staging Cold War equality and mutuality: the Ryukyuan-American Women's Symposium and the Ryukyuan-American Cultural CenterConclusions; 3 ""The world is our campus"": domestic science and Cold War transnationalism between Michigan and Okinawa; MSU, John Hannah, and Cold War international education; Domestic science, women's empowerment, and Cold War multiculturalism; ""Manifest domesticity, "" militarization, and Cold War transnationalism; Conclusions; 4 Building a bridge across the Pacific: domestic training and Cold War technical interchange between Okinawa and Hawaii. |
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""The path of the United States into a future of world understanding"": Hawaii in the Cold War Asia-PacificBaron Goto and the politics of international technical and educational interchange in the Cold War Pacific; Domesticity, technology, and pedagogy of multiculturalism in Cold War Hawaii; Tales of home, immigration, and American ""democracy"" in Cold War Okinawa; Conclusions; 5 Mobilizing homes, empowering women: Okinawan home economists and Cold War domestic education; UR home economics: the beginning. |
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Nurturing women's aspirations: narratives of science, domesticity, and women's empowerment in Cold War OkinawaPursuing science in Cold War Okinawa: women, militarized knowledge, and the production of post-war bodies; Mobilizing Okinawan homes for the Cold War: grassroots reform; Conclusions; 6 Cultivating feminine affinity and affiliation with the homeland: grassroots women's exchange between Mainland Japan and Okinawa; Cultivating Cold War affinity and affiliation between Okinawa and Japan; Training young women in Okinawa: the Future Homemakers of Okinawa. |
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The journal ""Kateika Kyōiku"" (Home Economics Education)Conclusions; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
Examines roles of gender, race and nation in the geopolitics of Cold War East Asia on the Island of Okinawa. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Militarism -- Pacific Area -- History -- 20th century.
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Militarism. |
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Pacific Area. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Women -- Japan -- Okinawa Island -- History -- 20th century.
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Japan -- Okinawa Island. |
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Cold War.
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Cold War (1945-1989) |
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United States -- Relations -- Japan -- History -- 20th century.
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Women. |
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Relations. |
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Japan. |
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Japan -- Relations -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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United States. |
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HISTORY -- Asia -- Japan. |
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International relations. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
| ISBN |
9781139941921 (electronic book) |
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1139941925 (electronic book) |
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9781316358221 (electronic book) |
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1316358224 (electronic book) |
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9781107079502 |
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1107079500 |
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9781107438811 |
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