Marketing the Menacing Fetus in Japan

By:

Helen Hardacre

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Twentieth-century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power

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This text provides a careful examination of "mizuko kuyo", a Japanese religious ritual for aborted foetuses. Popularized during the 1970s, when religious entrepreneurs published frightening accounts of foetal wrath and spirit attacks, mizuko kuyo offers ritual attonement for women who, sometimes decades previously, chose to have abortions. In its exploration of the complex issues that surround this practice, the text takes into account the history of Japanese attitudes towards abortion, the development of abortion rituals, the marketing of religion and the nature of power relations in intercourse, contraception and abortion. Although abortion in Japan is accepted and legal and was commonly used as birth control in the early postwar period, entrepreneurs used images from foetal photography to mount a surprisingly successful tabloid campaign to promote mizuko kuyo. Adopted by some religionists as an economic strategy, it was rejected by others on doctrinal, humanistic and feminist grounds.

Author Biography:

Helen Hardacre is Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions and Society at Harvard University, and author of Shinto and the State, 1868-1988 (1989) and Kurozumikyo and the New Religions of Japan (1986).

Release date NZ

March 10th, 1999

Author

Helen Hardacre

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

24 b-w photographs, 7 line drawings, 5 maps, 20 tables

Pages

332

Series

Twentieth-century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power

Dimensions

152x229x23

ISBN-13

9780520216549

Product ID

7699339

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