Mothers Against War

Mothers Against War examines the shifting relationships among motherhood, peace activism, and women’s rights in the decades following Japan’s defeat in 1945. With a focus on the concept of bosei , generally understood to be the “motherly” qualities that are supposedly inherent to women, the book illuminates how popular perceptions of the mother, the child, and the mother-child relationship gradually evolved to create the image that mothers, more than anyone else, protect children from war. This