A01=Helene Bowen Raddeker
Arahata Kanson
Author_Helene Bowen Raddeker
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Category=JPWL
Category=NHF
diary
Emperor's Son
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female political prisoners Japan
feminist historiography
gendered resistance Japan
Heimin Shinbun
high
High Treason Incident
Imperial Assassination
incidents
Japan Socialist Party
Japanese anarchist movement
Japanese Religions
kanno
Kanno Sugako
Meiji era dissent
Moral Reform Society
osugi
Osugi Sakae
Part III
political martyrdom studies
prison
Prison Diary
Public Peace Police Law
pure
radical women activists
Red Azaleas
sakae
Sakai Toshihiko
Sekai Fujin
Suga's Case
Suga's Death
Suga's Writings
sugako
Symbolic Continuity
Tokyo Imperial University
treason
Undutiful Daughters
Unswerving Path
Vice Versa
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415171120
- Weight: 700g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 16 Oct 1997
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Kanno Suga and Kaneko Fumika were both found guilty on different occasions in 1911 and 1926 of conspiring to assassinate the Japanese emperor. Kanno was executed and Kaneko hanged herself whilst in prison, but both women maintained their defiance of the state even in the face of death.
Through examination of their own life stories and writings, Helene Bowen Raddeker brings to life the women's own interpretations of their lives and their attitudes to death, with the associations of political martyrdom, heroism and notions of immortality. She finds that their self-presentations became weapons in an ideological war of words about social and political realities and their deaths were a means of self-empowerment within their historical context.
