title: Gender and science in Hiroshima's aftermath: a cross-cultural approach.
abstract: A comparative study of Japanese and Japanese-American survivors of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 suggests that there is much to be gained by looking at the history of the Bomb as a cross-cultural history. Issues of science and gender in survivors' experiences and memories illuminate three key features of the trans-Pacific history: a Japanese female author's literary responses to the Bomb, the Japan-U.S. relationship after the war that shaped Japan's antinuclear movement, and Japanese-American survivors' effort to gain governmental recognition and medical care in the U.S. within the context of the Asian American movement. Using variety of sources--literature, popular political discourse, congressional hearings, and oral histories--this article shows the volatile diffusion of political and cultural ideas revealed by a trans-Pacific perspective.
authors.affiliation: History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science, Lyman Briggs College, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48825, USA. wake@msu.edu
authors.forename: Naoko
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Wake
mesh_terms: D003469:Culture; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008297:Male; D054043:Nuclear Weapons / Q000266:history*; D011057:Politics; D011287:Prejudice; D011830:Radiation Effects; D012586:Science / Q000266:history*; D017741:Survivors; D014481:United States; D047789:World War II