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Vera Mackie. Creating Socialist Women in Japan: Gender, Labour and Activism, 1900–1937. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1997. Pp. ix, 252. $54.95.

Vera Mackie has conceptualized her project around three processes: those of theorizing, organizing, and imagining. "The process of 'creating socialist women' . . . involved the theorization of the class position of women and political strategies for mobilizing women in the socialist and labour movements; the creation of organizational structures in order to mobilize women effectively in the labour and socialist movement; and the process of imagining women in new ways: as workers, comrades and activists rather than as wives, mothers and subjects of the emperor" (p. 155). 1

Mackie further explains that her narrative of the movement of socialist women from subjection to activism results from her desire to replace the imagery of feminine passivity with images of political transformation (pp. 169–70), and she has arranged her chapters along this trajectory. Thus, after an opening essay on "The Socialist Future," she moves on to imperial subjects (gendered subjecthood), wives, mothers, workers, and, finally, activists—using well-chosen contemporary illustrations to begin each section. . . .

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