Ayako Kano is professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and core faculty member in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
Ayako Kano's book Japanese Feminist Debates . . . is a soft-toed
entry and an extremely careful and nuanced approach to conflicting
ideas of different feminisms, laying open also the U.S. paradigm
from which [the author] observes and sometimes compares the
Japanese feminist struggles and their antifeminist adversaries.
Kano's prose provides an entry into the diversity of feminisms and
invites readers to glide into the thought and rationales of
different actors within women's movements in Japan.--Andrea Germer,
Heinrich Heine University "The Journal of Japanese Studies,
46:2"
Kano's survey of debates about feminism in Japan over the past
century not only provides telling insights about Japan but also
makes a major contribution to understanding feminism as a global
phenomenon. . . . Thoroughly familiar with the scholarly literature
in both English and Japanese, Kano illuminates the current state of
the field. Perhaps most important, she treats feminism in Japan as
one valid version among many rather than as imperfect or incomplete
Western feminism.-- "Choice"
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