Women Of Okinawa
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Women Of Okinawa
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Author : Ruth Ann Keyso
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2000
Women Of Okinawa written by Ruth Ann Keyso and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"Three of the women were born before the Pacific War, and their first memories of Americans are of troops coming ashore with bayonets fixed. A second group, now middle-aged, grew up in the 1950s and 1960s, when massive American bases were a fixture of the landscape. The youngest women, for whom the bases are a historical accident, are in their twenties and thirties, raised in a country increasingly confident of its status as a world power.".
Women Of The Sacred Groves
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Author : Susan Sered
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1999-03-04
Women Of The Sacred Groves written by Susan Sered and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-03-04 with Religion categories.
Okinawa is the only contemporary society in which women lead the official, mainstream, publicly funded religion. Priestesses are the acknowledged religious leaders within the home, clan, and village--and, until annexation by Japan approximately one hundred years ago, within the Ryukyuan Kingdom. This fieldwork-based study provides a gender-sensitive look at a remarkable religious tradition. Susan Sered spent a year living in Henza, an Okinawan fishing village, joining priestesses as they conducted rituals in the sacred groves located deep in the jungle-covered mountains surrounding the village. Her observations focus upon the meaning of being a priestess and the interplay between women's religious preeminence and other aspects of the society. Sered shows that the villages social ethos is characterized by easy-going interpersonal relations, an absence of firm rules and hierarchies, and a belief that the village and its inhabitants are naturally healthy. Particularly interesting is her discovery that gender is a minimal category here: villagers do not adapt any sort of ideology that proclaims that men and women are inherently different from one another. Villagers do explain that because farmland is scarce in Okinawa, men have been compelled to go to the dangerous ocean and to foreign countries to seek their livelihoods. Women, in contrast, have remained present in their healthy and pleasant village, working on their farms and engaging in constant rounds of intra- and interfamilial socializing. Priestesses, who do not exert power in the sense that religious leaders in many other societies do, can be seen as the epitome of presence. By praying and eating at myriad rituals, priestesses make immediate and tangible the benevolent presence of kami-sama (divinity). Through in-depth examination of this unique and little-studied society, Sered offers a glimpse of a religious paradigm radically different from the male-dominated religious ideologies found in many other cultures.
Okinawa Women Act Against Military Violence
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Author : Kozue Akibayashi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Okinawa Women Act Against Military Violence written by Kozue Akibayashi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Feminism categories.
This dissertation is a study of Okinawa Women Act Against Military Violence, a feminist peace movement in Okinawa, Japan, where United States military bases are highly concentrated. The movement, officially initiated in 1995 as a response to the rape of an Okinawan girl by United States military personnel, has been outspoken on the issue of violence against women and militarism, and on the need to redirect security policies from current dependence on military power toward human security based on nonviolent conflict resolution. The purpose of this study is to document and analyze the thinking and actions of women active in the movement. It focuses especially on the non-formal learning process through which OWAAMV members have theorized the experiences of their daily lives as women suffering long-term military presence, leading to an analysis of militarized security, linking militarism to sexism.--From the author's abstract.
Okinawan Women S Stories Of Migration
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Author : Johanna O. Zulueta
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2022-03-24
Okinawan Women S Stories Of Migration written by Johanna O. Zulueta and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-24 with History categories.
The phenomenon of “war brides” from Japan moving to the West has been quite widely discussed, but this book tells the stories of women whose lives followed a rather different path after they married foreign occupiers. During Okinawa’s Occupation by the Allies from 1945 to 1972, many Okinawan women met and had relationships with non-Western men who were stationed in Okinawa as soldiers and base employees. Most of these men were from the Philippines. Zulueta explores the journeys of these women to their husbands’ homeland, their acculturation to their adopted land, and their return to their native Okinawa in their late adult years. Utilizing a life-course approach, she examines how these women crafted their own identities as first-generation migrants or “Issei” in both the country of migration and their natal homeland, their re-integration to Okinawan society, and the role of religion in this regard, as well as their thoughts on end-of-life as returnees. This book will be of interest to scholars looking at gender and migration, cross-cultural marriages, ageing and migration, as well as those interested in East Asia, particularly Japan/Okinawa.
Night In The American Village
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Author : Akemi Johnson
language : en
Publisher: The New Press
Release Date : 2019-06-18
Night In The American Village written by Akemi Johnson and has been published by The New Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-18 with Political Science categories.
"A lively encounter with identity and American military history in Okinawa. Night in the American Village is by turns intellectual, hip, and sexy. I admire it for its ferocity, style, and vigor. A wonderful book." —Anthony Swofford, author of Jarhead A beautifully written examination of the complex relationship between the women living near the U.S. bases in Okinawa and the servicemen who are stationed there At the southern end of the Japanese archipelago lies Okinawa, host to a vast complex of U.S. military bases. A legacy of World War II, these bases have been a fraught issue in Japan for decades—with tensions exacerbated by the often volatile relationship between islanders and the military, especially after the brutal rape of a twelve-year-old girl by three servicemen in the 1990s. But the situation is more complex than it seems. In Night in the American Village, journalist Akemi Johnson takes readers deep into the "border towns" surrounding the bases—a world where cultural and political fault lines compel individuals, both Japanese and American, to continually renegotiate their own identities. Focusing on the women there, she follows the complex fallout of the murder of an Okinawan woman by an ex–U.S. serviceman in 2016 and speaks to protesters, to women who date and marry American men and groups that help them when problems arise, and to Okinawans whose family members survived World War II. Thought-provoking and timely, Night in the American Village is a vivid look at the enduring wounds of U.S.-Japanese history and the cultural and sexual politics of the American military empire.
Cold War Encounters In Us Occupied Okinawa
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Author : Mire Koikari
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-07-15
Cold War Encounters In Us Occupied Okinawa written by Mire Koikari and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-15 with History categories.
This book examines roles of gender, race and nation in the geopolitics of Cold War East Asia on the Island of Okinawa.
Speak Okinawa
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Author : Elizabeth Miki Brina
language : en
Publisher: Granta Books
Release Date : 2021-02-25
Speak Okinawa written by Elizabeth Miki Brina and has been published by Granta Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-25 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Here's a story. On the U.S.-occupied island of Okinawa, an American soldier falls in love with a beautiful Japanese woman. He saves her from a life of grinding poverty. They settle in the States, to live out the suburban American Dream with their child. Here's another version. The U.S. military has occupied Okinawa since World War Two, after slaughtering a third of the island's population; the beautiful Japanese woman lives in poverty and marries the soldier as a way to escape. Here's a third version. A little girl grows up with a mother who can't pronounce her name. She meets blood relatives with whom she cannot communicate. She clings to a sense of whiteness that white peers will not let her claim. She is born as the convergence of these conflicting stories and as she grows up she must reclaim her own narrative. Speak, Okinawa is Elizabeth Miki Brina's courageous and heart-breaking testament to the struggle for belonging. It is a story about the immigrant experience; it is a story about how it feels to grow up biracial; it is a story about the island of Okinawa, from its first inhabitants to its colonisation by Japan and the United States. But above all, it is a story about reckoning with your history, and the links that tie you to your heritage and give you a sense of home within yourself.
Being Human In Okinawa
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Author : Sri Ayu Wulansari
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Being Human In Okinawa written by Sri Ayu Wulansari and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Women categories.
Okinawa S Gi Brides
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Author : Etsuko Takushi Crissey
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2017-06-30
Okinawa S Gi Brides written by Etsuko Takushi Crissey and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-30 with Social Science categories.
The American military started building its massive base complex in Okinawa at the end of World War II. During the decade that followed, US forces seized vast areas of privately owned land, evicting and impoverishing thousands of farmers. US military occupation rule, imposed during the Battle of Okinawa in 1945, lasted until 1972, twenty years longer than the Allied occupation of mainland Japan. Besides land seizures, Okinawans were subjected to numerous human rights violations, including oxymoronic “occupation law” that consistently favored the US military in cases of serious crimes against civilians, denial of the freedom to choose candidates for elected office, and strict limits on travel outside Okinawa, even to mainland Japan. The commanding military presence has persistently stymied economic development in Okinawa, which remains Japan’s poorest prefecture. Yet, even as the disproportionate burden of bases continues to impose dangers and disruptions, hundreds of Okinawan women every year have married American servicemen and returned with them to live in the United States. Former Okinawa Times reporter Etsuko Takushi Crissey traveled throughout their adopted country, conducting wide-ranging interviews and a questionnaire survey of women who married and immigrated between the early 1950s and the mid-1990s. She concentrates especially on their experiences as immigrants, wives, mothers, working women, and members of a racial minority. Many describe severe hardships they encountered. In Okinawa's GI Brides, Crissey presents their diverse personal accounts, her survey results, and comparative data on divorces—challenging the widespread notion that such marriages almost always fail, with the women ending up abandoned and helpless in a strange land. Her book, the first on Okinawan wives of US servicemen, also compares the circumstances of their marriages with those of so-called “war brides” and postwar spouses of American servicemen stationed in mainland Japan and Europe. Written in brisk and lively prose, this book is stimulating and informative reading for a general audience, and a timely resource for specialists in the fields of history, political science, sociology, international relations, and anthropology, as well as ethnic, immigrant, and gender studies.
Who Is Michael Jang
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Author : Michael Jang
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-09-20
Who Is Michael Jang written by Michael Jang and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-20 with categories.