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Marketing the Menacing Fetus in Japan

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by Helen Hardacre

    • Author

      Helen Hardacre

    • Book Format

      Paperback

    • Publisher

      University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton

    • Published

      March 1999

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      Marketing the Menacing Fetus in Japan

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      Product Description

      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.

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      • Author

        Helen Hardacre

      • Book Format

        Paperback

      • Publisher

        University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton

      • Published

        March 1999

      • Weight

        514g

      • Page Count

        332

      • Dimensions

        153 x 153 x 33 mm

      • ISBN

        9780520216549

      • ISBN-10

        0520216547

      • Eden Code

        1151342

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      • Author/Creator: Helen Hardacre

      • ISBN: 9780520216549

      • Publisher: University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton

      • Release Date: March 1999

      • Weight: 514g

      • Dimensions: 153 x 153 x 33 mm

      • Eden Code: 1151342

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