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Wombs of Empire
Population Discourses and Biopolitics in Modern Japan
Sujin Lee

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Contents
Introduction: Population: A Discursive Site of En-gendering Life
1 The Population Problem and Utopian Remedies
2 Voluntary Motherhood: The Feminist Politics of Birth Control
3 Scientific and Imperialist Solutions to Overpopulation
4 Building a Biopolitical State: The Mobilization of Health for Total War
5 "Fertile Womb Battalion": The Gender and Racial Politics of Motherhood
Epilogue: The Continued Politics of the "Population Problem"