Gender and Post-war Relief: Support for War-Widowed Mothers in Occupied Japan (1945-52).
This article analyses the gender implications that emerged through welfare support for the war-bereaved in post-Asia-Pacific War Japan. It follows the foundation, activities and dissolution of the Federation of Bereaved War Victims, the first support group for the war-bereaved that initially began a...
| Publicado en: | Gender & History Vol. 28; no. 3; pp. 775 - 794 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
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