Huh (Feminist themes in anime/manga, "Marginal", unisex reproduction)
Japan's Feminist Fabulation
Reading Marginal with Unisex Reproduction as a Key Concept
by AKIKO EBIHARA
http://www.genders.org/g36/g36_ebihara.html
It's very interesting, but the conclusion confuses me. The essay points out how maternity is not so much a woman's womb, as connection to nature. Yet, the conclusion contains the sentence "Women are running away from their duty to reproduce."
Frankly, I think Japan's dropping birth rates have less to do with rising feminism than the following factors:
1. Atom bombs. Maybe it left something behind? I know the immediate after effects, but I don't know if it's still here generations later. Plus, how big a pencent of total country population was those two cities?
2. Marriages between older men, and younger girls.
3. Affairs between married older men, and younger girls, who usually choose or were made to abort, something which might damage their reproductive chances afterwards.
3. Small, relatively isolated culture and population. Less to choose from.
4. Economy.
Reading Marginal with Unisex Reproduction as a Key Concept
by AKIKO EBIHARA
http://www.genders.org/g36/g36_ebihara.html
It's very interesting, but the conclusion confuses me. The essay points out how maternity is not so much a woman's womb, as connection to nature. Yet, the conclusion contains the sentence "Women are running away from their duty to reproduce."
Frankly, I think Japan's dropping birth rates have less to do with rising feminism than the following factors:
1. Atom bombs. Maybe it left something behind? I know the immediate after effects, but I don't know if it's still here generations later. Plus, how big a pencent of total country population was those two cities?
2. Marriages between older men, and younger girls.
3. Affairs between married older men, and younger girls, who usually choose or were made to abort, something which might damage their reproductive chances afterwards.
3. Small, relatively isolated culture and population. Less to choose from.
4. Economy.