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Marketing the Menacing Fetus in Japan - Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power Helen Hardacre
Marketing the Menacing Fetus in Japan - Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power
Helen Hardacre
This text provides an examination of "mizuko kuyo", a Japanese religious ritual for aborted foetuses. Popularized during the 1970s, when religious entrepreneurs published accounts of foetal wrath and spirit attacks, mizuko kuyo offers ritual atonement for women who chose to have abortions.
332 pages, 24 b/w photographs, 7 line drawings, 5 maps, 20 tables
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | March 10, 1999 |
| ISBN13 | 9780520216549 |
| Publishers | University of California Press |
| Pages | 332 |
| Dimensions | 229 × 153 × 33 mm · 500 g |
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