"The postwar history of Japan is just beginning to be written, andPedagogy of Democracyexamines a formative period---the U.S. Occupation, 1945-52. Koikari examines the Occupation as a raced, gendered, and classed endeavor in the larger context of the Cold War. Her fresh perspective makes this a significant book for those interested in Japanese women's history and Japanese history in general."
Kathleen Uno, Associate Professor of History at Temple University, and author ofPassages to Modernity: Motherhood, Childhood, and Social Reform in Early Twentieth Century Japan

Mire Koikari is an Associate Professor and Director of the Womens Studies Program at the University of Hawai`i at Manoa.

Acknowledgements
Note on Japanese Names
1. Introduction: Recasting Women in the U.S. Occupation of Japan
2. Feminism, Nationalisn, and Colonial Genealogies: Women's Enfranchisement and Constitutional Revision
3. Feminism, Domestic Containment, and Cold War Citizenry
4. Women, the Cold War, and the Question of Resistance
5. Making the Body Respectable: Cold War Containment and Regulation of Sexuality
6. Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index