Gender and Nation in Meiji Japan

"This book examines the intellectual, social, and cultural factors that contributed to the rapid spread of Western tastes and styles, along with the backlash against Westernization that was expressed as a longing for the past. By focusing on the expressions of these desires in popular culture and media texts, it reveals how the conflation of mother, countryside, everday life, and history structured representations to naturalize ideologies of gender and nationalism"--Jacket.