Japan since 1945: from Postwar to Post-Bubble (2012)
Book
Gerteis, C., George, T. S., Hein, L. E., Dusinberre, M., Obermiller, D. T., Hastings, S. A., Fujiwara, T., Carlile, L. E., Aronson, B., Takahashi, S., Yano, C., Shimoda, H., & Vlastos, S. (2012). C. Gerteis, & T. S. George (Eds.). Japan since 1945: from Postwar to Post-Bubble. Bloomsbury

The fifteen multidisciplinary essays that comprise this book examine the social, cultural, and political underpinnings of Japan’s postwar and post-industrial trajectories. Unique for their integration of gender, class and ethnicity within four themat... Read More about Japan since 1945: from Postwar to Post-Bubble.

Subjectivity lost: Labor and the Cold War in Occupied Japan (2008)
Book Chapter
Gerteis, C. (2008). Subjectivity lost: Labor and the Cold War in Occupied Japan. In S. Stromquist (Ed.), Labor's Cold War: Local Politics in a Global Context (258-290). University of Illinois Press

This chapter examines how in Occupied Japan customary expectations about gender roles combined with the ideological stand-off that characterized relations between labor activists and military government bureaucrats to reenforce women’s secondary stat... Read More about Subjectivity lost: Labor and the Cold War in Occupied Japan.