Gender, Health, and the Problem of “Precocious Puberty” in Meiji Japan
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Mishima Michiyoshi, a Japanese pioneer of school hygiene, believed that Japanese children experienced precocious puberty, resulting in underdeveloped and inferior physical stature in comparison to European and American children. This analysis of comparative anatomies interpreted the inferiority of the “Japanese” body as embodiment of its diminutive status in politics and civilizations. This chapter shows how intellectuals, government bureaucrats, school hygienists, and pediatric specialists viewed and interpreted children’s bodies and their physical growth, illustrating the complex interactions between ideals of civilization and gendered norms in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Japan.
2009 ◽
pp. 309-334
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2007 ◽
Vol 28
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pp. 79-104
Extractivist Geographies: Mining and Development in Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth-Century Peru
2018 ◽
Vol 46
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pp. 27-46
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2020 ◽
Vol 12
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