Geographies of Gender: Family and Law in Imperial Japan and Colonial Taiwan

In the field of East Asian studies, particularly within the domain of English-speaking academic circles, there exists a substantial corpus of research addressing the subject of gender in Japan during the Imperial era, which spans from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century.Nevertheless, insufficient consideration has been given to the extent to which Japanese imperialism influenced gender relations in the colonies and occupied territories.Although there has been significant interest in the military 'comfort women' of the late Imperial Japanese period, there is a paucity of studies that examine the impact of Japanese colonial rule on gender relations in colonised countries from a longer term perspective.This study, Geographies of Gender , which illuminates gender and family in both Japan and colonial Taiwan, is therefore a welcome addition to the scholarship of Japanese imperial history.