The Political Economy of Reproduction in Japan (Sheffield by Takeda Hiroko
By Takeda Hiroko
This booklet analyzes the political economic climate of copy and its function within the technique of jap modernization. Hiroko analyzes nation makes an attempt and regulations to interfere into women's our bodies and daily lives to combine them into the japanese political financial system. in response to Foucault's suggestion of governmentality the writer develops a version to evaluate replica in 3 kinds - monetary, organic and socio-political - from 1868 until eventually the current day.
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Efforts to revise inefficient reproductive practices were initiated not only at a discursive level, but in the domain of governing practices, too. A national qualification system for medical professions was organized and newly established medical professionals, namely, doctors, started to become more deeply involved in the households of the upper middle class as ‘home doctors’, replacing female care-takers and midwives. Childbirth was, thus, ‘medicalized’. Also, basic medical knowledge regarding nutrition, hygiene and sexuality was introduced into each home through home doctors.
Replying to this feminist criticism, Donzelot argues as follows: 30 Reproduction and governmentality In working-class and bourgeois strata alike – albeit by quite different means and with different results – women were the main point of support for all the actions that were directed toward a reformulation of family life. For example, the woman was chosen by the medical and teaching professions to work in partnership with them in order to disseminate their principles, to win adherence to the new norms, within the home.
Foucault explained this mechanism by referring to von Justi’s eighteenth-century theorization of ‘police’, by which individuals were kept ‘happy’ – happiness being understood ‘as survival, life, and improved living’ ‘in such a way that their development fosters that of the strength of the state’ (Foucault 1981: 251–2). Hence, the state began to investigate and analyze the ‘population’, a group of people inhabiting the state, in order to revise its conditions of life. In Japan, the initiation of the modernization process was externally brought about by an encounter with the modernized West.