Wendy Matsumura is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego, and author of
Housewifization, Invisibilization, and the Myth of the New Small Farm Household
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Published:December 2023
2023. "Housewifization, Invisibilization, and the Myth of the New Small Farm Household", Waiting for the Cool Moon: Anti-imperialist Struggles in the Heart of Japan's Empire, Wendy Matsumura
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Chapter 4 illuminates the relationship between the housewifization of Japanese women in small farm households, the employment of Korean migrant workers who were denied the resources to guarantee the reproduction of their own families, and the erasure of non-wage-earning Korean women from the Japanese economy altogether. It argues that despite their small numbers, Korean men and women agriculturalists were indispensable for the self-actualization of the Japanese small farmer as conquistador humanist in the metropole and shows the various ways that relations of domination were made compulsory through the management of intimate spaces and relations.
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