Kanai Yoshiko, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Japanese academic and feminist scholar
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Place of Birth: Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
About Kanai Yoshiko
- Kanai Yoshiko (Japanese: ????, born 1944) is Japanese academic and feminist theorist.
- She explored the complexities of the feminist movements in Japan and the difficulty in launching women's studies in a society bound by dualistic definitions of gender.
- Coining the phrase "housewife feminism", she addressed how Japanese society had attempted to appease women without addressing the underlying systemic problems that continued to foster inequality.
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