Constructing identities beyond reconstruction: working housewives in post-war Japan through gendered media portrayals (1950s)

• Main Author: Goay, Si Qi
• Other Authors: Els van Dongen
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2024
• Subjects: Arts and Humanities; Japanese women in postwar Japan
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/174472
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This thesis analyses the visual narratives of Japanese women portrayed in media works during the immediate post-war years of Japan during the 1950s. Through Japanese cinema, newspapers, magazines and photography exhibitions, the thesis explores the conflicting and multi-faceted construction of worki...