Chizuko Ueno (Ueno Chizuko, born July 12, 1948, in Toyama Prefecture) is a Japanese sociologist and Japan's "best-known feminist".Her work covers sociological issues including semiotics, capitalism, and feminism in Japan. Ueno is known for the quality, polarizing nature, and accessibility of her work.
Her research field includes feminist theory, family sociology, and women's history. She is best known for her contribution to gender studies in Japan. As a public intellectual, she played a central role in creating the field of gender studies in Japanese academia. Ueno is a trenchant critic of postwar revisionism and criticizes the whitewashing of Japanese history, which she claims attempts to justify its colonialism, wartime atrocities, and racism both before and after World War II. In particular, she has defended the compensation of Korean comfort women who were forced into prostitution by the Empire of Japan. She is also a staunch advocate of global women's reproductive rights,[15] and a critic of monogamous marriage institutions.
Recently, when I read this book for the second time, I had a deeper understanding of the book. I used to think that this book is about feminism from a very daily perspective, thinking that its academic value is not so high, but more like a kind of popular science. And now after re-reading this book, I find that his feminist value is very contemporary, and its final theoretical orientation is that feminism protects that vulnerable groups have the right to be at ease and be themselves.
She believed that in a broad sense, feminism is to fight for fairer rights and interests for the vulnerable groups in society. The vulnerable groups in society are mobile, and the essence of your first doctrine is to protect vulnerable groups so that they can be themselves with protected rights and interests.