Knowledge, Power, and Women's Reproductive Health in Japan, 1690-1945

Intro -- Series Editor' Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes to the Reader -- The Periodization of Japanese History -- The Tokugawa System -- Names and Romanization -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Reproductive Body of the Goseihō School -- Goseihō's Microcosmic Body15 -- Manase Dōsan and the Goseihō School -- Obstetrics and Gynecology Through the Genroku Era28 -- Katsuki Gyūzan and His Work -- Pronatalist Reproductive Techniques -- Disciplining Pregnant Women -- Representing the Birthing Process -- Markers of Sexual Difference -- Chapter 3: Changing Perceptions of the Female Body: The Rise of the Kagawa School of Obstetrics -- The Rise of the School of Ancient Practice -- The Kagawa School of Obstetrics -- Kagawa Gen'etsu -- The Reconceptualization of the Body in Sanron and Sanron Yoku -- A New System of Obstetric Procedures -- Obstetric Practice in Commercialized Society -- The State, Physicians, and Reproductive Surveillance -- Chapter 4: The State, Midwives, Expectant Mothers, and Childbirth Reforms from the Meiji Through to the Early Shōwa Period (1868-1930s) -- The Establishment of New Medical and Public Health Systems -- Changing Power Relations Involving the State, Medical Experts, and Expectant Mothers in Meiji Japan -- Early Meiji Regulations -- The Making of Modern, Nationalist Midwives -- Childbirth Reforms -- Reproductive Surveillance Through Midwives -- Chapter 5: Women's Health Reforms in Japan at the Turn of the Twentieth Century -- Discourse on "Japanese Bodies" and Adopting the Eugenics Thought -- Molding Young Women's Bodies Through Physical Education -- Medicalized Discourse on Women's Clothes and Beauty -- Women's Resistances and Collusions -- Chapter 6: Knowledge, Power, and New Maternal Health Policies (1918-1945).